March 16, 2007

CA: thank you, thank you very much

From the Chico Enterprise Record:

Replica of Elvis's house teaches local students construction skills

Ron Reed sees a lot of juveniles in court in his job as a public defender for Butte County, but he prefers to see them swinging hammers, drilling holes and painting — and many afternoons this month he's gotten his wish.

Students in Matt McGuire's construction class at the Academy for Change (AFC) are working on an idea of Reed's, to build a replica of Elvis Presley's birth home...

2 Comments:

Anonymous said...

This is ONE example of the positive impact of public defenders in Butte County. The majority ignore their clients, collude with the D.A. and are refered to as "Public Pretenders" by their clients. You say that "The defense lawyer's job is to force the system to acknowledge that the defendant is not just a social misfit, or a statistic, or a criminal, but a human being with hopes and dreams", well the unfortunate inmates in the Butte County Jail could all use an advocate, not somone who is happier to withhold discovery and make deals than support their clients and look out for their best interests.

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