tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5945843206427351559.post6208644568239748610..comments2024-01-25T14:51:13.377-05:00Comments on Gamso - For the Defense: BECAUSE WE HAVE THE POWER TO FUCK OUR CLIENTS - The Jefferson Parish Indigent Defender Board EditionJeff Gamsohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09869425697771419546noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5945843206427351559.post-28331461985429085392011-02-02T08:51:04.529-05:002011-02-02T08:51:04.529-05:00Shocking, but is it really? I suspect variations o...Shocking, but is it really? I suspect variations of this go on in many jurisdictions. In CON-necticut, the Public Defenders Office was unable to find an in-state attorney to represent me on appeal, for some inexplicable reason. They went out of state to find a hack attorney who filed some pro forma paperwork left-over on his computer from some other, older case.<br /><br />The principal issue raised was "prosecutorial misconduct." Problem is, no claims of prosecutorial misconduct were ever upheld by CT State Supreme Court. They always ruled "harmless error." And so they ruled in my cases. My argument now is that a concatenation of harmless errors amounts to ONE BIG HARMFUL ERROR. That the morons in robes don't think the way I do is a given fact of jurisprudence.<br /><br />The state informed me that my appointed defender would "come and visit me and discuss the issues which I wished to appeal." This turned out to be a false promise: Never happened. The designated, free-for-me attorney filed the appeal unilaterally without consulting me or seeking my approval.<br /><br />I did however attend the oral argument, where one of the justices asked questions which were so stewpid, it was obvious she knew nothing of the case and was ill-prepared to render intelligent judgment. Needless to say, we lost. <br />The state S.C. denied me cert. The appellate procedure was simpley a continuation of the persecution and abuse heaped upon me by the trial court. Otherwise known as a "rubber stamp."<br /><br />ALL RISE!William Dorisshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12154363834638829439noreply@blogger.com