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Los Angeles County Pays $300,000 To Settle Public Defender's Legal Malpractice

Loaded on May 15, 2005 published in Prison Legal News May, 2005, page 52
Filed under: Attorneys, Attorney Misconduct, Public Defenders, Three Strikes. Location: California.
by John E. Dannenberg

On October 4, 2004, the Los Angeles County, California Claims Board granted authority of $300,000 to settle a claim by a prisoner for legal malpractice on the part of the Public Defender, wherein the prisoner had been incompetently advised to plead guilty to a third strike" ...

 

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