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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. [12]
Two Los Angeles County prosecutors who advocated for the Menendez brothers' release from prison claim they were retaliated ... Theberge was sent back to the alternate public defender’s office ...
The Los Angeles County District Attorney at the time, ... Nancy Theberge, previous head of Gascon’s resentencing unit, has been moved to the office of the alternate public defender.
Los Angeles County has moved a program providing attorneys to poor criminal defendants from the L.A. County Bar Assn. to the overworked office of the public defender.
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.
Eyvin Hernandez is a Salvadoran American lawyer who works in the Los Angeles County Public Defender's Office in California. Hernandez was imprisoned in Venezuela after being arrested by Venezuelan military agents in March 2022. He was released on December 20, 2023.
The Los Angeles County Public Defender provides legal assistance to individuals charged with a crime who are financially unable to hire and pay for their own private lawyers. The Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office is the largest local prosecutorial office in the United States. [1]
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 ...