i would like to share with the public defenders. ken is here and as well as dave from the public defenders office. [ applause ] >> i'm sorry. ron from the santa clara's office. key note speaker. this came out yesterday on the anniversary. she's a contributing editor and writer at the washington magazine. her work has appeared in the nation, news day, new york times, mother jones, 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 year-and-a-half 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 she's here. her well recent investigation shows inadequacy of our legal system. let's welcome her. [ applause ] >> hi, thanks for having me. i'm 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 and i visited a lot of public defenders offices, watc

>> guest: one of the problems when the judges are appointed a public defenders is its the public defenders job is reliant on their approval, and judges are judged on their efficiency, how fast do they process cases, how quickly do they get through the docket. so they're going to want a public defender that goes along and gets along, that does their bidding. and that's a real challenge. and in new orleans for a long time the system was also that one public defender was assigned to one courtroom and the same judge. so they were always arguing before the same judge. and the problem with that is that they within kind of trading clients in a way like okay, my private paying client, you know, if you can't let me spend a little time and take his case to trial, i will persuade his client to plead guilty. there was this trade off going like you could cast in your favor, only on some of your clients. and it really made for a very corrupt system down there. >> the other thing that struck me about judges and ineffective assistance of counsel is i've heard stories of like lawyers showing up drunk in co

i don't know if you know the history in california, we have had public defenders office established in 1914, the first woman attorney. she had to sue to become a lawyer in california. she became a defense attorney and spent 20 years advocating for it and it finally passed in 1920. how do public defenders contribute to their anonymity. >> i'm not surprised it was a woman. but i think that much like me, the population that is served by public defender lawyers is so invisible without a lot of political power, but you add to that, public defenders, i'm going to grossly generalized, so here i go, as a group, wrap, i think in a zelous representation, they tend to be not as open to the public and media. it's very hard to trust that somebody will represent your story well. i really encourage you to do what karen does which is let people see what you do. trust them to tell the story because they will see it. they see it in this film which every time i see it i think it doesn't go far enough, i didn't show enough, i didn't do it and people are moved by the story of people fighting for people. ev

i would like to share with the public defenders. ken is here and as well as dave from the public defenders office. [ applause ] >> i'm sorry. ron from the santa clara's office. key note speaker. this came out yesterday on the anniversary. she's a contributing editor and writer at the washington magazine. her work has appeared

i would like to share with the public defenders. ken is here and as well as dave from the public defenders office. [ applause ] >> i'm sorry. ron from the

. >> 130185 agenda[appropriating $656,958 of general fund reserve to the public defender for salary expenditures - fy2012-2013]1301857.sponsors: campos; avalos and marordinance appropriating $656,958 from the general fund reserve to the public defender for salary expenditures in fy2012-2013, pursuant to charter section 9.113, this appropriation is subject to a two-thirds affirmative vote of all members of the board of supervisors. fiscal impactt2/27/13; assigned under 30 day rule to the budget and finance committee.3/13/13; assigned to the budget and finance committee.3/27/13; amended, an amendment of the whole bearing new title.3/27/13; recommended as amended.4/2/13; re-referred to the budget and finance committee. >> 130185 agenda[appropriating $656,958 of general fund reserve to the public defender for salary expenditures - fy2012-2013]1301857.sponsors: campos; avalos and marordinance appropriating $656,958 from the general fund reserve to the public defender for salary expenditures in fy2012-2013, pursuant to charter section 9.113, this appropriation is subject to a two-thirds affirmative vo

people in suits you didn't know who the defenders were, you didn't know who the prosecutors were and you knew who the clients were because they were shackled on the seats. the judge started calling names and in the next second he would call another name and you heard voices, that would be the voice speaking for the person. a lawyer never stood next to the client and then the judge calls a name and there was no voice and he says is there mr. so and so here? he says i'm here. >> he says where is your lawyer? i haven't seen my lawyers since 70 days ago. what had been shocked to me for a man who had been locked for more than 70 days, nobody knew that. they had been used to a system, a level of expectation for poor people and the kind of justice they deserve. they become so used to it that they accepted it. that gave me this idea that we need to start a movement, it needs to be a movement of public defenders who get it so we started building gideon's promise by creating young defenders from across the south to join this 3 year program to get training and support and started from 15 lawyer

the taxpayers or the defendant? generally i hear the models the defendant, does he want to go to work with a leg monitor on his leg or security bond. you are innocent until proven guilty. and the other thing about the p. they are not there because the family can't release the money. and it's hard to get the numbers, the transparency is not there on pretrial release figures. but these people are in custody and they -- you know i lost my train of thought. that's a senior moment. i was going to make a good point and i apologize. >> let me go to your neighbor, because i want to actually find out if you are in the minority. mrs. mccracken, does your organization support the election of money bail? or are you focused on other reforms? >> we are focused on other reforms. we advocate for the expansion or the implementation of pretrial services. there is great demand for that across the state of california. the criminal justice institute has been just recently awarded only two counties. technical assistance services in implem

ricky, what do you think of the decision by the defense to put this defendant on the stand for i believe something like 18 days? >> well, 18 days is absolutely unheard of. i always had a rule in my practice that you never put a criminal defendant on the stand unless it's absolutely necessary. well, was it absolutely necessary? she was claiming self-defense. the only person who can testify to the alleged abuse, the only person who can testify what it was like to be jodi arias in a relationship with travis alexander, was, in fact, jodi arias. now, 18 days, may have, may not have, but may be to her benefit if she got some sympathy somehow from these jurors that they would either come back with a lesser included defense or even if they come back with first degree, that they might spare her life. >> during those 18 days, she was seen to cry on occasions. she was seen to break down. the impact of a woman claiming to have been violently assaulted and threatened by a man, present before the jury. >> well, you also had tapes of travis alexander. i mean, it's not just jodi arias saying that he was

in the meantime let's focus on gideon and the public defenders role. i would say if there is ever a time and place to turn the tied and to bring the &m music back to gideon's trumpet. we thank you and look forward to a great day. thank you. [ applause ] >> about a year-and-a-half go we saw one of the most dramatic shifts when the state took funding and reallocated to local and housing for state prisoners. our next speaker chief probation officers not only in san francisco but statewide. she's here to give us an update on what's happening. >> thank you, public defender inviting probation for being part of this summit. i apologize for my voice. i recently made it back with china, unfortunately my voice has not made it back yet. i'm very proud that our partnership in san francisco that we realize in transforming san francisco criminal justice system in one that uses science base, human approaches to help people change their lives which reduces recidivism and breaking the inter generational to return. we hope to transform the criminal justice system on a na

and my honest thought was that he might try to kill the defendant. >> others in the courtroom fear thething. >> i thought that this was going to be a disaster, and it was. i saw mr. swett's hand moving to try to get to the sheriff's weapon. the sheriff was able to restrain him, and he did not get his hand on the sheriff's weapon, which was holstered. >> clifford can't defend himself. he's handcuffed and remains silent during the struggle. >> he never moved. he never said a word. he never backed off. he never looked afraid. he just simply sat there. and even afterwards when they brought him back into the courtroom to finish the sentencing, he had absolutely no remorse for what he had done, none whatss r. heard crying out for his dead son. >> he's not yelling anything other than his own son's name, josh, over and over again. josh, his baby, josh, his son. >> officers and family members are trying to control swett, but the chaos escalates when someone in the courtroom begins yelling at the grieving father. >> that's when he started losing it. now if you watch the video, we have him up. he

there were two recommendations in the audit for the public defender. so with the funds that we received for realignment what we did was created a realignment team xhvpt of american people experiences attorney and a criminal justice specialist who is a reentry spicht and an almost soon to be licensed social worker and together the attorney and criminal justice specialists handled all the cases that came into the court. and the realignment teams collaborates with all the other teams in our office so we can advocate for those alternatives to incarceration which we keep hearing about and the sheriff made reference to many of those evidence based evidence to have an impact on recidivism which addresses the underline why someone might find themselves in the system we have the drug you courts and as it stands now the capacity for those are in the hundreds. we have only a hundred people participating in san francisco in drug court yet we have thousands of the people coming in our system whether they think be on parole or community supervision or the individuals

frankly, it shows how true all of this is. >> he's talking about the defendant, the profile of the defendant and the racial bias. but you're also looking at, of the person -- the person killed, i'm sorry, but you're looking at the defendant and saying who jodi arias was and gender is important. >> well, yeah, i think so. and one of the things you look at is if travis alexander had been charged here if he had lured her into having sex, stabbed her 30 times and shot her, i think we'd be more likely to see a death penalty. but in america, and throughout the world, we're not hard wired to think of women being violent. and, in fact, fewer than 2% of the time, in modern history, do women get the death penalty. so there's a real reluctance to get it. >> as mark is pointing out, in terms of who the victim was. >> yeah, it is interesting. i don't know that there are women who are on death row. when you look at this jury, we're talking about five months. they deliberated five months. they deliberated quite a long time, i think. >> i don't know gender was a part of jury deliberations. this is a very un

they don't have to prove it when the state can prove the defendant was in the victim's house, that thes blood is in the victim's house. and as far as motive, you don't have to prove motive, but here it's clear what the motive was. it was money. the defendant was paid hundreds of thousands of dollars by this doctor whose deal and negotiations went bad with reading's father. gregg: you know, brian, the doctor's name is munir. he suddenly fled the country of after the murder, and yet he is paying the defense bill of the accused. so that's pretty incriminating, isn't it? >> i think it's horrifying evidence for the defendant in this case, ms. park. i mean, the fact that he leaves the country right after she's arrested signals that he knew that she was sent out there to burden juliana reading. and i think, also, there's a clear motive here, gregg. almost a million dollars was transferred into park's account. i think this case ought to be elevateed to a capital murder case -- gregg: right. >> and if she's convicted, she should be subject to the death penalty. gregg: the question is what was t

i just wanted to thank the public defender, i think that we have seen since this item has been introduced since the discussion that took place in committee and at the board of supervisors that there is a willingness to work on this and i appreciate the various steps that have been taken by the public defenders office. i think that the fact that they have been working closely with the mayor's office point to how they are really trying to deal with it in a responsible way and i hope this item moves forward. i think a lot of progress has been made on most of those issues and they are very close on the last one so i would simply ask for moving the next item forward. thank you. >> thank you, supervisor campos. so, i guess there are a few questions. i under stand you are working with the mayor's office but pending outcome from there, as i shared my perspective from last time i don't like when the budget chair now the committee member when we approve a budget and it gets spent and we any knew this was going to happen. at the same time we have to pay for salaries that have been earned. my concern

the judge said defendants please stand. dge explained the constitutional rights, said you have been charged, april 18 to april 19 in bristol, connecticut. you are charged with lily conspiring with each other to commit an offense against the united states by knowingly covering up objects owned by dzhokhar tsarnaev, namely a laptop computer and backpack, with the intent to impede, obstruct and influence a criminal investigation of the marathon bombing. again, this is a transcript of what just happened inside the courtroom. you face a possible sentence of five years in prison. she explains rights. right to counsel, right to remain silent, et cetera. both defendants said that they can afford a lawyer. azamat tazhayakov waived the right to bail, went to voluntary detention. dias kadyrbayev waived the right to bail and entered voluntary detention. the government then asked for detention, said they're a serious risk for flight and obstruction of justice from kazakhstan. azamat tazhayakov and dias kadyrbayev both friends of dzhokhar

to witnesses and to the defendant herself. is is the woman who's facing murder one charges and the death penalty, and the jury asking her questions. some of them very, very important questions. others a little sarcastic. >> what is your understanding of the word "skank"? >> they had questions about jodi's sex life with travis. >> if you didn't want to be tied up to a tree, why would you go up and look for a place where he could do that? >> questions about her killing travis. >> were you mad at travis while you were stabbing him? >> and question after question about jodi's many lies. >> why did you decide to tell the truth two years after the killing? >> why did you wait for so long to tell the truth? >> would you decide to tell the truth if you never got arrested? >> i honestly don't know the answer to that question. >> after the barrage of questions and testimony from a few more defense witnesses -- >> at this point the defense rests. >> next up, prosecutor juan martinez with rebuttal witnesses. martinez worked to cast doubt o

for the public defender's office would connected the system to the hub. we had a new application for the council direction for the sf police department, the sheriff department, courts and da. we created a portal with the police department so they can access information such as quality of life information. we help them with the 2011 justice department report so we were appropriately assigning bcs codes; we migrated their blades; and supported the police department request for -- funding for phase i. we created a separate portal, a portal for non- criminal justice department so that we can present aggregate data in compliance, this is non- -- data, that is aggregated that the public should be able to see, in cooperation with the department and dr. -- i will show you four sample reports. the last things we implement it the first phase of interdepartmental notifications with criminal justice business processes so that when probations are booked, both the sheriff department and adult probation department is notified immediately. for the justice reporting you i

the system. a federal public defender in nevada for years. you can be the the best representation but the clients don't 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. that's where the the difference is between rich and poor. the rich because they are paying for their time will have as much time with their lawyer as they need. ". it's a serious thing that they know the system is broken. and the criminal justice across the united states acknowledge deep flaws in the way representation is provided to people. eric also spoke to the american council of chief defender in 2009. we know they lag far behind other justice programs. they constitute about 3 percent of all criminal justice expenditures in our nations largest counties." i'm going to skip ahead. we interview lawyers, who fire appropriate motions and do many other things that attorneys should be able to do as

although the government are the charges to which the defender will plead guilty come in most cases. there's a limited exception. there's sentencing advocacy. the judge is not bound by a plea agreement. >> in the book one of the interesting anecdotes, the case of iran which no is neither friend of america nor a model of human rights, but their legal system is interesting because the victim actually sits with the judge. when the case is over and a punishment is to be administered the judge will routinely turn to the victim and say, what would you like? what would you like me to do? here are my parameters. what do you think? there may be an overly emotional person and he's going to offer something up and the judge will listen and say, i'm not doing that and i can't do that, i won't do that. i'll take you what it will be. so the victim has a full level of participation. the norwegian killer of the 77 children a number of years ago to me was a model of what i'm talking about. 77 kids, 77 lawyers representing each of the kids paid for by the state, not just the prosecutors, 77 autopsy repo