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SURPRISE, SURPRISE

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 Critic eats hat - news at elevenA lot can happen in a few days ...  which is why we should have tracked down Public Defender Howard Finkelstein before Friday of last week.It turns out our favorite whipping boy has been making concessions after all.  That's right, Mike Satz, the man everyone said will never change because he's simply incapable of changing, has been, well, changing.Howard told us discussions are under way to divert first time drug offenders to an SAO run pretrial drug diversion program.  The program will be shorter than Drug Court, maybe six months, and supposedly capped at 1/2 gram (cocaine and pills?).  Drug Court Judges Beach and Pollack, for their part, are rumored to be mighty unhappy, not only because they believe Drug Court provides greater long term results, but because Drug Court has traditionally been limited to the very same first time offenders...continue to full post

Full post as published by JAABlog on June 28, 2009 (boomark / email).