April 23, 2006

AK: hitting the wall

An attorney-client relationship is getting complicated in the land of Alaskablawg, up Mat-Su way:

Man shot by police having attorney problems

Shawn McCrary and his public defender, Bruce Brown, came before Judge Smith on April 6, saying they could no longer operate as a team. Brown told Superior Court Judge Eric Smith that the level of trust had broken down completely.

Smith appointed the Office of Public Advocacy to take McCrary's case. On April 12, Rachel Levitt, head of OPA in Palmer, came before Smith to argue against her agency's appointment...

Smith said if the Public Defender Agency stayed on the case, the office would have to build a wall around Brown to isolate him from the rest of the office...


I am waiting for the motion to clarify - "So, Your Honor, would that be, you know, a Chinese wall, or a real wall?"

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