Post by merh on May 28, 2017 23:44:14 GMT
The District Attorney is a department that represents the State in court. Here, it is paid for by the County.
City Attorneys represent their City in court cases & are paid by the City
Judges, on the other hand, are paid by the state to decide cases.
Public Defenders are a county department (here) designed to fulfill the right to an attorney issue. They are paid by the County.
Conflict Public Defenders represent cases where there is a conflict of interest in the case for the regular Public Defenders. I believe many of these are not county employees, but are paid a fee by the county.
And the Alternate Public Defenders Office is another County office, thus paid by the County.
If it has been deemed the defendant might be eligible for probation, the Probation Department interviews the defendant, submitting a report to the Judge. They are paid by the County.
And that was the same with Ted Wels investigation into Brady's cheating in DeflateGate. Nobody is going to spend hundreds of hours conducting an independent investigation for free. Somebody has to foot the bill for the independent investigation so the NFL accepted the responsibility for paying for the independent investigation to ensure that Brady and Belichick got a fair and impartial opportunity to clear themselves of wrongdoing.
And Belichick was able to clear himself of wrongdoing because the independent and unbiased investigation team cleared Belichick of any wrongdoing, which conclusively proves that the independent and unbiased investigation team wasn't just giving back a verdict that the NFL wanted but was giving back a verdict that was correct and just, thereby proving that zoilus is wrong about the independent and unbiased investigation team just giving back the verdict that the NFL paid for.
Getting cleared of a crime isn't the same as innocent
If Belichick paid enough to someone to deflate the balls & keep mum about it, how does one prove it?
We consider ourselves a nation of laws. All men are created equal with equal rights so someone has to uphold those laws.
The problem is the rich can often buy more equality than the rest of us.
Most of my clients see their public defender for 2 minutes before their 10 minute court session. Public Defender says accept the plea bargain because there's no way to guarantee how a jury will go-the defendant could get the max sentence.
Judge has read all the reports. Asks for any arguments against how s/he is inclined to rule.
Decision reached.
More than one of my clients has told me s/he was innocent. I say it's not my place. I enforce court orders. Client wants to go back & admit to lying in court & claiming innocence now, that's up to the client, but perjury would be a new charge.

