PickieChickie
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In my experiences with family members, public defenders do just as good of a job as any other attorney, if not better. They are overworked, but they do a good job, IMO. In fact, there are certain other defendants in criminal cases that we are following here on WS who would be better served by a public defender, rather than a wannabe big shot lawyer (or a legend in his own mind, yes, I am thinking of Jose Baez!). JMO, IMO, and all other disclaimers.
I think it's only going to be a few days or weeks before Montoya is charged with Kayleah's murder. IMO
Where does the money come from to pay the public defenders? It comes from the county. If every single public defender told their clients to stick to their guns and demand a jury trial, the counties would go broke.
I reviewed thousands of cases in our county and kept a tally of each case and only 5% of the defendants who had public defenders stuck to their guns and demanded a jury trial whereas 95% plead no contest when offered reduced charges.