Public Interest
Mar. 15, 2012
Private groups pitch in to aid defendants in collaborative courts
Momentum is gaining for a handful of private, nonprofit groups that assist people going through programs like drug court or veterans' court.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
SANTA ANA - The homeless man, a defendant in a special program at the Orange County Superior Court, needed glasses. So Kathleen Burnham picked him up, drove him to the eye doctor, paid for his eye exam and glasses, took him to lunch and dropped him back off in the Santa Ana civic center where he lives.
"Who does that, right?" Judge Wendy S. Lindley, who runs the homeless court where t...
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