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Aram James is a national advocate for discontinuing police use of tasers. Aram Byer James is a former Santa Clara County, CA Assistant Public Defender, police watchdog, social activist, and civil rights attorney. [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12] As an expert on the defense of necessity, he headed the team of attorneys defending Stanford ...
University of California, Santa Barbara (BA) Georgetown University (JD) Ash Kalra (born January 21, 1972) is a Canadian-American politician who has served as a member of the California State Assembly since 2016. A member of the Democratic Party, Kalra previously served on the San Jose City Council from 2008 to 2016.
Molly Minudri (1951): [235] [236] First female Deputy Public Defender for San Francisco County, California; Estella Dooley (1958): [237] First African American female lawyer to work for the San Francisco Public Defender's Office (c. 1970s) Joanne M. Garvey (1962): [238] First female to serve as the President of the Bar Association of San ...
Lawyer Politician. Jeff Adachi's voice. Jeff Adachi on his career as the Public Defender of San Francisco Recorded September 16, 2011. Jeffrey Gordon Adachi (August 29, 1959 – February 22, 2019) was an American attorney, pension reform advocate, and politician who served as the Public Defender of San Francisco from 2003 to 2019. [ 1 ]
Samuel M. Shortridge (brother) Charles M. Shortridge (brother) Clara Shortridge Foltz (July 16, 1849 – September 2, 1934) was an American lawyer, the first female lawyer on the West Coast, and the pioneer of the idea of the public defender. The Criminal Courts Building in downtown Los Angeles was renamed after her in 2002, and is now known as ...
Leslie Hope Abramson was born on October 6, 1943 in Queens, New York. After attending Queens College and law school at UCLA, she was admitted to the State Bar of California in 1970. She spent six ...
September 24, 2024 at 10:27 PM. SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco public defender Mano Raju stood on the front steps of the San Francisco Hall of Justice on Bryant Street on Tuesday and said a man ...
Further reading. Public defender (United States) In the United States, a public defender is a lawyer appointed by the courts and provided by the state or federal governments to represent and advise those charged with a crime or crimes who cannot afford to hire a private attorney. [ 1 ][ 2 ][ 3 ] Public defenders are full-time attorneys employed ...