New pd blog

Here’s another new public defender blog, written by “Miss Conduct PDX”, who is a public defender in Portland. The blog, titled Miss Conduct in Portland, has two posts in two days. Here’s a sampling:

I’ve had this case since I took over another attorney’s case load in May. In August I filed a kick-ass motion to suppress evidence. No reasonable suspicion to stop my client. No reason to demand his ID. Unlawfully extended stop. All the good stuff.

The DDA kept setting the case over. He’s going to file a response to my motion. Yeah, right. In all my time as a PD in this city, I have never had a written response to anything from this DA’s office.

This morning, I got my response. “Dear Miss Conduct: Plead out your client now or we’ll go back to the grand jury and we’ll reindict him for much, much worse. Love, DDA.”

I screamed at my computer.

It’s been added to the blogroll and will be part of the daily new pd blog posts posts.