Fair Defense Campaign Website

I found a good website with useful information for those persons who may be facing criminal charges.  It is the Fair Defense Campaign website at fairdefense.org.

For example, they have a brochure entitled, “What to do if you can’t afford a lawyer in Texas.”

Another great brochure is entitled, “Why you need a defense lawyer if you are charged with a misdemeanor in Texas.”

For all of those judges who think indigent defense funds are coming out of their own pockets, it might be educational to read the petition filed in Williamson County on June 12, 2006.

Every defense lawyers worst nightmare

I wonder how many people wrote the editor about the lawyer who represented this guy twenty years ago?  From The Seattle Times comes the report of a former police officer wrongfully imprisoned for the last twenty years.  Read this and tell me you think justice was done.  Children: Father didn’t abuse us.

Note that the father entered a no-contest plea “after learning his court-appointed attorney had not prepared a defense.”  This got him “two life terms in prison plus 14 years.”

Best of all, he was “denied parole five times because he refused to admit guilt and enter a sex-offender treatment program.”  Of course.