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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.
From 1981 to 1988, he served as a deputy public defender in the Santa Clara County Public Defender's Office and later in private practice at the law firm of Davila & Polverino from 1988 to 2001. [ 1 ]
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]
The Santa Clara County Bar Association, a group of retired judicial officers from Santa Clara County, the California Judges Association, 90 California law professors and more than 400 public defenders and attorneys publicly came out against the recall. These opponents take different positions on Turner’s sentence, but all warn that removing ...
Rose Elizabeth Bird (November 2, 1936 – December 4, 1999) was the 25th Chief Justice of the California Supreme Court. She was the first female law clerk of the Nevada Supreme Court, the first female deputy public defender in Santa Clara County, the first woman to serve in the California State Cabinet, and the first female Chief Justice of California.
Marilyn Pestarino Zecher (1957): [267] First female judge in Santa Clara County, California; Rose Bird (1966): [40] First female Deputy Public Defender for Santa Clara County, California (1967-1974) Virginia Mae Days (1934): [268] [269] First Latino American female to serve as a Judge of the Santa Clara County Municipal Court (1981-1984). She ...
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 turn, Santa Clara de Uchunya had signed a pact with Ocho Sur to preserve its newly acquired forests for the next 25 years. It was a critical final step for Ocho Sur in legalizing its plantations.