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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.
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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. [1]
In 2018, Garcia was selected by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors to be the Public Defender for Los Angeles County. [7] Garcia is the first Latino and youngest appointed Public Defender in the County." When California Governor Gavin Newsom imposed a moratorium on the death penalty, Garcia supported the move.
Gordon Proudfoot was both a lawyer and a disc jockey. Before the internet provided quick answers to almost any kinds of questions, Gordon ran an “dial-a-law” call-in tape service where ...
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Rachel Rossi (born 1983) is an American lawyer and public official. She is the Director of the Office for Access to Justice at the United States Department of Justice.Rossi has worked as a public defender in Los Angeles County, and as criminal justice counsel to Democratic Senator Dick Durbin and for the United States House Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism and ...
Federal Public Defender offices follow one of two models. The first model, the Federal Public Defender, is a federal agency which operates under the Judicial Branch of the federal government, specifically administered by the Administrative Office of the United States Courts. However, they perform administrative and budgetary duties as only the ...