Public Defender Stuff


Public Defender Stuff says it posts "indigent defense news, delivered fresh daily. Home of daily roundups of all new public defender blog posts, news related to indigent defense and the Public Defender Blogger Awards."

Author: The blog is currently co-authored by "Gideon," who also authors the blog A Public Defender, and ambimb, who authors The Imbroglio.

Blawg Related Categories: Criminal Justice • Public Defenders • Anonymous • Public Defender

Recent Posts from Public Defender Stuff


  • Um, just don’t. (At least on the sex w/clients part.)

    Ok, it’s probably never even crossed your mind, but just in case it has, um, don’t have sex with a client! If a private practitioner has sex with a client, it might be pursued as…

  • Blogging PDs: A dying art?

    It was with great sadness that I recently noticed that Skelly has hung up the keyboard at Arbitrary and Capricious after five years of leading the ranks of blogging public defenders. Skelly consistently posted terrific…

  • The real story of the PD crisis

    Last week NPR caused a minor uproar among public defenders with its hatchet piece on the state of the profession featuring perhaps the nation’s worst public defender, Bob Slameka. Now, Woman of the Law gives…

  • Newbie PD Pick-Me-Up

    If you find yourself feeling jaded or discouraged by the grind of your caseload, pause for a moment and take a look at your job and your profession through the enthusiastic eyes of newly-minted PD…

  • New pd blog posts

    Here are the new public defender blog posts: a public defenderA Public Defender’s Life in AlaskaA Year in the LifeAbolish the Death PenaltyArbitrary and CapriciousBetween A Laugh And A TearCook County Public Defenders BlogDemonstrative Evidencethe…

  • Welcome to the fold

    From BRAND NEW public defender blogger Not for the monosyllabic: I GOT THE JOB!! I’m officially an assistant public defender! I’m starting on March 4th! I’ll post more info about it later–I’ve got to call…

  • A stark contrast in courts: Coleman-Franken lawyers v. public defenders

    From the MinnPost: Michael Kunkel’s work was done. For the moment. The young lawyer with the Joe Mauer sideburns was trying to relax. His hearing before the Minnesota Court of Appeals, including rapid-fire, rugged questioning…

  • Coalition calls for reforms in public defender system

    From the Lansing State Journal: Today, the Campaign for Justice, a coalition of Michigan legal groups and human rights and faith organizations, launched an effort to reform Michigan’s system to prevent further miscarriages of justice.…

  • Ga. public defender system faces challenge

    From the Columbus Ledger-Enquirer: Georgia’s cash-strapped public defender system, which already struggles to pay a growing backlog of legal fees, could be faced with a new round of bills stemming from a case under review…

  • Supervisors may create Office of Indigent Legal Services

    From the Kingman Daily Miner (AZ): A new plan is in the works to take some of the confusion out of indigent defense at the County Superior Court. The County Public Defender’s and Legal Defender’s…