Shot In The Arm and You're Too Late....

CARRIE GLEAVES

Yes, regurgitating news YET again, but it's an important story (from The Tennessean):

Intern with Nashville public defender's office is shot

By Kate Howard
THE TENNESSEAN

An intern working in the Metro Public Defender's Office was shot Monday while working on a case in the University Court public housing development.

Carrie Gleaves, 35, was shot in the arm while helping Assistant Public Defender Laura Dykes interview a client. Metro Public Defender Dawn Deaner said Gleaves, a student at the Nashville School of Law, had just begun volunteering in the office. Gleaves' injuries were not life-threatening, police say.

Link to the VIDEO OF THE NEWS STORY HERE.

Hopefully Gleaves is recovering nicely and avoiding reading all the douchebag comments in the online story from The Tennessean.

Not Exactly Our Best Foot Forward

Sometime I’m amazed at the shit that can come out of an attorney’s piehole. In this case the piehole belongs to Bob Slameka, a Public Defender in Michigan for over 40 years. I wanted to feel sorry for this PD in the beginning and by the end of the story, I was just horrified.

You can read a bit about him in the new NPR piece on the lack of resources for indigent defense:

When asked if he really thought his own client should be executed, Slameka said yes, that's what he wrote at the time and that's how he felt.

"That's exactly what I wrote. That's exactly how I felt," he said. "You know something? Because of people's actions, a lot of people don't deserve to live. OK? You take people's lives — I'm not saying, an eye for an eye — but because of the nature of your behavior, sometimes maybe you don't deserve to live on this Earth."

When reminded that Lloyd was exonerated and never actually killed anyone, Slameka brushed it off. He said he didn't have DNA evidence at the time, and criminal defense is a very different job now.

If you are so inclined you can look at Slameka’s Michigan Bar Record by clicking here. As far as I'm concerned this guy just needs to stop practicing law and at MINIMUM not be allowed to take PD cases.