Public Defender and District Attorney

Abstract

The paper will discuss the parity between the public defender office and the district attorney office. The paper will analyze the nature of work that is being done by the two law agencies. The public defender in the office is very efficient at sizing up the entire case and also helps in presenting an acceptable case in front of the prosecutor or the judge. The public defender office also helps through the criminal process. The public defender office and the designated team primary responsibility are to supervise and carry out the case in accordance with the county legal policies and regulations. On the other hand, the district attorney is responsible for claiming whether the case will go for any further trial or not. If in any case the district attorney feels that any kind of evidence is strong any criminal and it should be taken to court then the district attorney will order to bring the suspect and the criminal to court and the designated team will conduct the trail in front of the judge.

Table of Contents

Introduction4

Parity Between Public Defender Office and District Attorney Office4

Responsibilities of Public Defender and District Attorney7

Conclusion8

References10

Public Defender and District Attorney

Introduction

Public defenders are equally effective at gaining acquittals for defendants when compared to private counsel has allowed for an assumption that the public defender, and the promise made in Gideon v. Wainwright (1963), is working. But what does this acquittal rate tell us about the public defender office? Sadly, the comparison does not tell us much. The effectiveness of a public defender can only be truly determined by using a comparison to its counterpart in the adversarial system, the prosecution. In order for our public defender office to be deemed adequate or effective, it must be found to parity the prosecution, not to be an equivalent, or better than privately obtained counsel. The public defender and the district attorney are considered as a significant part of the legal system in United States. The paper will discuss the parity between the public defender office and the district attorney office.

Parity Between Public Defender Office and District Attorney Office

The public defender occupies a strange place in society, employed by society to defend the same individuals that society wants prosecuted. In this strange position of which the public defender exists, an explanation regarding how the public defender is perceived can be found. Society sees the public defender as the individual defending the rights of the lowliest member of society, the criminal. It is quite easy to make the inference that a person would only take on such an occupation if they were unable to find work elsewhere. That a position of a public defender, because of what the job entails, must be a last resort for only the weakest of legal minds. For the client, the man or woman charged with offending society, how could they fully trust the public defender? The public defender is an employee of the same system that is trying to ...