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The Multiple Conflicts Office - Major Cases (MCO) accepts court appointments that the Public Defender and the Alternate Public Defender are unable to accept due to a conflict of interest or other order of the court. [3] MCO represents people who are charged with only the most complicated and serious cases throughout San Diego County. [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]
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.
The two men who have shaped the criminal justice system in Dutchess County for years stepped down at the end of 2023. Both District Attorney William Grady and Public Defender Thomas Angell retired ...
Cook County’s 2024 budget provided about $102 million for the public defender’s office, and close to $205 million for the state’s attorney’s office.
Her goal of seeing this idea come to fruition saw success when the state of California would see the first public defender office of the United States open in the city of Los Angeles in 1913. [21] Following the creation of the Los Angeles Public Defender office, the public defender program and idea spread throughout the nation. [19]
The office of Miami-Dade County State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle did not respond Monday to questions on where she stands on the judicial consolidation issue. Monroe Public Defender Robert ...
In February 2011, Adachi appointed Matt Gonzalez chief attorney in the Public Defender's Office. [4] [5] As of 2012, the San Francisco Public Defender's Office is one of the most diverse law offices in the country, with over 55% women and 50% minorities and LGBT attorneys and staff. [6] In 2016, the office became involved in the Frisco Five ...