Showing posts with label Crime and punishment. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Crime and punishment. Show all posts

Wednesday, October 23, 2024

Joining the Los Angeles County Superior Court Private Investigator Panel: A New Chapter in my Defense Investigations

Los Angeles, CA—Throughout my career as a criminal defense investigator, I’ve had the opportunity to work on numerous cases, including several pro bono efforts for those who couldn’t afford a skilled and aggressive investigator. The work involved in criminal defense investigations is not only expensive but also incredibly time-consuming and, at times, exhausting.

In many cases, clients are not always forthcoming and can lead you on a wild goose chase, which makes the work even more challenging. Sometimes, the best you can hope for is uncovering mitigating circumstances that disprove any evil intent. Other times, you’re fortunate enough to encounter cases where people are truly innocent, unfairly targeted due to sloppy police work. Unfortunately, when that happens, the cover-up by authorities often begins.

Historically, the compensation for investigators working indigent defense cases has been too low to justify the time and effort involved. However, recent changes have made it financially viable, and that convinced me to join the Los Angeles County Superior Court’s Private Investigator Panel. Although these indigent cases frequently involve clients accused of some of the most heinous and repulsive crimes, they are still entitled to a fair trial and an aggressive defense investigation.


The best part of joining this panel is that I will still have the freedom to take on private cases as I always have. I will be working cases both in Arizona as usual.  I look forward to working with a team of defense attorneys dedicated to representing indigent defendants. Thankfully, the courts have evolved since the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark decision in Gideon v. Wainwright, 372 U.S. 335 (1963), which mandated that legal representation be provided to those who cannot afford it.


I consider it a privilege to be part of this effort and to contribute to ensuring that justice is served for all, even those who are destitute. For me, this represents a new chapter in my career, one that aligns with my belief in fairness and the pursuit of truth, no matter the challenges. 


Looney left politicians enabling and facilitating the cowardly criminals they refuse to keep locked up.

 


Los Angeles, CA—Crime here is an out-of-control, raging dumpster fire. The odds of getting stabbed or shot on public transit are better than hitting the jackpot.

For decades, liberal politicians have been falling all over themselves to pass every gun ban they could push through. Did it slow down the criminals? Not a snowball's chance in hell. All it did was make the streets a safer place—for the predators. These lowlifes are free to rob, sexually assault, and brutalize the elderly and the weak without fear of resistance.


Los Angeles is cursed with the worst possible leadership—a mayor who couldn’t care less and a county board packed with leftist lunatics. Their solution? Keep the public unarmed, defenseless, and ripe for the picking. Meanwhile, the police force is gutted by manpower shortages, and those who are left are shackled by counterproductive policies that do more to protect criminals than citizens.


The Second Amendment is crystal clear: Americans have the right to arm themselves everywhere with modern, effective firearms. But these political ass clowns seem to get off on watching the violence they pretend to condemn.


What we need, especially on our public transportation, are armed citizens and undercover cops. When these cowardly criminals strike, they need to be met with deadly force, stopped cold by the very people they were targeting.


It won’t be pretty at first—some of these vicious predators will end up zipped into rubber body bags. Yes, many will be minorities, because like it or not, they’re the ones committing these savage crimes. But in the end, there will be fewer innocent people living in fear, being tortured, or killed.


Until we, the people, stand up and demand our liberty and our safety, nothing will change. And if that means civil disobedience to unconstitutional gun laws, then so be it.