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He was appointed to represent Scott Dekraai who was accused of killing eight people in the 2011 Seal Beach shooting.During the course of representing Dekraii, Sanders uncovered that prosecutors from the Orange County District Attorney's Office and law enforcement agencies used jailhouse informants to build their cases against defendants, but they would withhold that evidence from defense ...
After law school, he started working in the San Diego County Public Defender's office in 1995. [3] During his time in San Diego, Mr. Garcia was recruited to the Alternate Public Defender and then recruited to the Multiple Conflicts/Major Cases office as the youngest lawyer to join that homicide and capital litigation team.
Elliot Blair, an Orange County public defender, was killed this weekend in Mexico while celebrating his first wedding anniversary. An Orange County public defender killed in Mexico Skip to main ...
From 2006 to 2018, she served as a deputy federal public defender in the Office of the Federal Public Defender for the Central District of California. [3] On December 7, 2018, Governor Jerry Brown appointed Hwang to serve as a judge of the Los Angeles County Superior Court .
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The public defender system is not the only form of indigent defense program offered in the United States. Besides the public defender system, there are two other main alternatives: assigned-counsel system and contract-service system. [3] Assigned-counsel is where the court appoints a private lawyer to defend someone who cannot afford to pay. [3]
In 1993, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors created the Alternate Public Defender's (APD) Office in order to curb the costs in cases where the Public Defender had a conflict of interest. Bruce Hoffman was appointed the first Alternate Public Defender and upon his retirement in 2002 was succeeded by his then Chief Deputy Janice Fukai. [12]