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STRANGELY SILENT

By "Captain Liberty" and "Rumpole"

(For a guy that clearly knows how to use a phone, Carlos Martinez is strangely silent these days.)For a lawyer, for a defender, for an advocate for the poor, the weak, the gullible,  Miami Public Defender Carlos Martinez remains strangely silent over the controversy regarding his office.His employees are not, judging from the response in the comments section of the last post. THE ACCUSATION: That facing times of trouble and crisis, the Miami Dade Public Defenders office used money designated by the Florida legislature for 16 new attorney positions for raises- mostly for upper echelon employees.  Someone from the Dade PDs office signed off on a budget request that included positions for 16 attorneys that they never had any intention of hiring...continue to full post

Full post as published by Justice Building Blog on May 18, 2009 (boomark / email).