Silva, Green, Hallback.
The Public Defender’s Office in this county doesn’t do much to earn their nice salaries. A recent letter in the AVA from a man at the jail complained at length about how lazy the County-paid lawyers are, and there’s plenty of evidence he’s right. The PDs call the people they defend their “clients,” as if their “clients” had voluntarily walked in off the street. The clients have no choice in who represents them because they have no money. The result is a lot of defenses ranging from shabby to non-existent.
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