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An attorney returned to england after several years of immersion in the program. After 30 years decided not to seek reelection. Joseph ramon quit in frustration after trying his first Death Penalty case. Is j ramon here . Hes in the back. He actually, we talked afterwards a couple months. He works in a bar. He drinks a lot less as a bartender than as a public defender. In some ways dawsons speech has missed the mark. Most of the public defenders are not particularly interested in being vigilante...

No iron shirts. The women at the Conference Also wore their standard trial attire. The jacket that told them it was serious work though it came from marshals. The canvas book bags from barnes noble. It was possible that shiny span dekz super powers. But it was a stretch. What die son was up to clearly was trying to rally the crowd to commitment to popular work. The losing cause, the rights of the indigent. This was a telling moment for me. Indicative of a sense from every Single Person i spoke t...

Today i really want to share with you in the celebration and recognition of the 50th anniversary, im going to ask you to come up here, jeff. Look at him. This is amazing, everyone. But today is march 18, 2013. Today marks the 50th anniversary United States courts decision that someone should be defended at no cost. Where journalist and concerned citizens will gather at the San Francisco public defenders 2013 justice summit on march 19 to discuss ways to better fulfill gideons promise justice for...

Allowing me to speak. [ applause ] next its a great honor to present supervisor cohen to present a proclamation to us. Supervisor cohen represents the district 10. Which includes bay view Hunters Point and hill. Hey, everyone good morning. How are my justice fighters doing out there . Today is invigorating and enlighten you to make sure we have social justice everywhere. I represent bay view and porter hill. So today i really want to share with you in the celebration and recognition of the 50th ...

Village boys, salon and author of two other books home fires burning, married to military for better or worse. She had traveled all over the country for a yearandahalf to cover at the quality of the indigent today. She had to travel the count country to get here today. She came from maryland. We are very excited shes here. Her well recent investigation shows inadequacy of our legal system. Lets welcome her. [ applause ] hi, thanks for having me. Im very excited to be here, if a bit sleepy. As he...

Every year. Whereas city of the San Francisco joined with the public defenders and the legal aid lawyers to celebrate the right to counsel. Therefore be it resolved the San Francisco march 18th as gideon versus wayne right day as acknowledgment for the 50 years of the United States landmark decision as well as the work of the public defenders who continue to fulfill the rights. [ applause ] thank you very much. I would like to thank the board of supervisors and the Mayors Office as well. I would...

Chance to review it and i appreciate that and its done regally and i want to recognize the departments work in doing that. Also we received a letter about meetings with the community and wondered if the chief wanted to give some comment on that. Looks like there was a meeting in june. I think these were the meetings that preceded the ordinance. Okay thank you. Any further questions . Dr. Marshall. Just because i heard this come up before and i want to reiterate what you said and what commissione...

About then and the remaining three are from this presentation. So going back what we talked about is why we were reporting the way we were reporting what race codes we were choosing and why, and what i wanted at that time is that we report crime by race according to the California Department of justice, which is the middle box. The California Department of justice requires that we report the races that you see there, and they define hispanic as an ethnicity, not a race. Thats why you didnt see i...

Them. Clients dont trust the system. A federal public defender in nevada for years. You can be the the best representation but the clients dont see it. Clients are asking do i trust you enough to tell you the truth of what happened . I need that information so i can see for example is this a self defense case. There has to be enough time to create a relationship, is she said. Thats where the the difference is between rich and poor. The rich because they are paying for their time will have as muc...

Produce the reports im going to show you. We worked closely with the sheriff to make this happen and we have the dual reporting report the codes and the ethnicities. As of october last were we did it and we had to come back together because we were getting ones that said not entered and we took care of that so we are now getting pretty good statistics and thats what i am going to show you. So this is as i mentioned the bookings by race i should point out these are adult bookings and these are ac...