Criminal
Feb. 9, 2011
Volunteer Lawyers Flock to Agencies
District attorneys and city attorneys in California have found out-of-work lawyers are a good (and free) source to make up for budget cutbacks.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
SACRAMENTO - When half the lawyers in the Sacramento County Public Defender's misdemeanor trial unit were laid off in 2010, Brooks G. Parfitt, a volunteer attorney in the unit, took on many of their cases. A few blocks away, volunteer lawyers at the district attorney's office strategized about prosecuting those cases.
It became so common for volunteer lawyers to prosecute misdemeanor cases in t...
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