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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 all where clarence combid gideon convicted to be stealing change at a pool hall. He wrote a petition to the Supreme Court from his jail cell arguing that his rights had been violated. He presented a victory for civil rights and justice. San francisco one of the first cities in the United States to establish a Public Defenders Office opened its doors in 1921. Whereas gideons promise lives on in the San Francisco Public Defenders Office which se...

We are talking about the results which has proved if you change your approach then you can improve the results and in San Francisco, three years about before realignment and Evidence Base probation and sentencing we had over 7,000 individuals on probation, as a result we now currently have 5500 individuals under supervision and that includes all of this population that has been realigned in the state. Instead of a 78 percent failure rate which is what parole has, probation has a 77 percent success rate, again changing the focus. The number of felony probationers who were revoked and sent to st...

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 said, my new book was really an effort to take the temperature of Public Defense across the country...

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 like to share with the public defenders. Ken is here and as well as dave from the public defenders office. [ applause ] im sorry. Ron from the santa claras office. Key note speaker. This came out yesterday on the anniversary. Shes a contributing editor and writer at the washington magazine. Her work has appea...

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 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 all where ...