San Francisco Public Defender's Office » Audio http://sfpublicdefender.org Just another Sfpublicdefender.org weblog Tue, 24 Aug 2010 16:29:51 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 KALW Crosscurrents: Jeff Adachi on Community Justice Center http://sfpublicdefender.org/media/2009/08/kalw-jeff-adachi-cjc/ http://sfpublicdefender.org/media/2009/08/kalw-jeff-adachi-cjc/#comments Fri, 14 Aug 2009 01:08:19 +0000 Larry Roberts http://sfpublicdefender.org/?p=1329 San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi has some quarrels with the way Mayor Gavin Newsom has handled his department’s budget. Recently, he took the case that his office is overworked to a district judge, who ruled he could immediately transfer three-quarters of its nearly 200 cases from the newly formed Community Justice Center to private attorneys… with the city picking up the tab.

Ben Trefny of KALW’s Crosscurrents sits down with Jeff Adachi to ask him what’s going on with his work at the Community Justice Center.

]]> http://sfpublicdefender.org/media/2009/08/kalw-jeff-adachi-cjc/feed/ 0 KQED Interviews Jeff Adachi on Public Defender Budget Cuts http://sfpublicdefender.org/media/2009/05/kqed-interviews-jeff-adachi-on-public-defender-budget-cuts/ http://sfpublicdefender.org/media/2009/05/kqed-interviews-jeff-adachi-on-public-defender-budget-cuts/#comments Thu, 07 May 2009 18:44:54 +0000 Lea Villegas http://sfpublicdefender.org/?p=946 Public defenders and defense attorneys from around California met in San Francisco today to discuss how budget cuts are affecting their work. What cuts are public defenders being asked to make, and how are those cuts impacting their ability to defend people accused of crimes who can’t afford a lawyer?

Listen to the interview here:

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