Category Archives: Public Defender

iePolitics: A letter from a mom

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I received this from a concerned mother today:

MY NAME IS TIERNEY HARRIS AND MY SON, LAWRENCE LEE IS BEING RAILROADED BY THE SAN BERNARDINO PUBLIC DEFENDER’S OFFICE AND NOW THE CONFLICT PANEL. HE WAS RAILROADED INTO TAKING A PLEA ON A POSSESSION CASE BEFORE ANY DISCOVERY WAS DONE AND BEFORE ANYONE READ THE CASE FILE. WE REQUESTED TO SPEAK WITH ATTORNEY ISAEFF ON APRIL 11, 2011 TO WITHDRAW THE PLEA BUT DID NOT GET THE OPPORTUNITY TO DO SO UNTIL JULY 18, 2011 AT WHICH TIME MY SON HAD BEEN PLACED BACK INTO CUSTODY BY THE “DRUG COURT” JUDGE, AND ATTORNEY ISAEFF FINALLY ADMITTED THAT HE HAD NOT READ HE FILE AND THEN DID SO. AFTER READING THE FILE HE STATED HE WOULD NEED TO SPEAK WITH HIS SUPERVISOR TO BEGIN THE WITHDRAWAL PROCEEDINGS. AUGUST 19, 2011 WE WERE GIVEN ATTORNEY RICHARD FARQUHAR FROM THE CONFLICT PANEL. WE HAVE NOT SPOKEN WITH THIS MAN SINCE THAT DAY, WE HAVE A HEARING SCHEDULED FOR OCTOBER 7, 2011 FOR THE MOTION TO WITHDRAW THE PLEA…BUT WHAT PLEA???? REPRESENTATION WITHOUT COMMUNICATION IS MALPRACTICE. ALSO HAD A HEARING AFTER THE APPINTMENT OF THE ATTORNEY FROM THE CONFLICT PANEL AND MR. FARQUHAR DID NOT SHOW BUT ATTORNEY STUART O’MELVENY FROM THE CONFLICT PANEL DID SHOW – HE DID NOT LET US KNOW HE WAS THERE ON MY SON’S BEHALF. THEN SOME DAYS LATER O’MELVENY ALSO SHOWED UP AS CONFLICT PANEL ATTORNEY FOR THE OTHER DEFENDANT IN THE SAME CASE AS MY SON….
WE ARE IN DESPERATE NEED OF SOME EXPOSURE TO THE ON-GOING B.S. THAT IS THE CONFLICT PANEL IN SAN BERDOO… I AM ALSO IN FEAR FOR THE SAFETY AND WELL BEING OF MY SON….BEING A YOUNG BLACK MAN IN THE I.E. HE REALLY DOES NOT HAVE A FAIR CHANCE TO RECIEVE JUSTICE….

iePolitics: Boxer finally exiting

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The rumors started last night and are rampant today.  It appears the San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors has finally had their wishes carried out by County Administrative Officer Greg Devereaux.  Public Defender Doreen Boxer appears to be enjoying her last few days of employment with San Bernardino County.

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iePolitics: Exclusive: The Eyler/Postmus witness list – Updated #3

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Editor’s Note:  For a blog that “no one reads,” stories that are printed on it sure do have the tendency to create havoc.  We knew there would be several additional names to this list, but then presents drop from the sky.  And those presents were read by the defense.


iePolitics has obtained a partial list of witnesses expected to be called as a part of the upcoming corruption trial in People v. Postmus, et al.  Attorneys for the defendants have given the judge an expected length of seven to eight weeks for the trial.  Here are the names we have been given so far:

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iePolitics: BOS wimps out again?

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This was in my inbox today:

Looks like the BOS was going to fire Doreen Boxer. Steve Levine was asked to take the job. In the interim, Doreen’s latest boyfriend, a state senator, intervened. Guess what the result was????? Others are about to come forward, but you will be the first to know if you don’t already

iePolitics: RIP

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Yet another individual associated with one of San Bernardino County District Attorney Mike Ramos’ political witch hunts has taken his own life.   The deputy public defender representing Steven Cox has passed away.  Although we are not suggesting his untimely death was related to the case, we have been sitting on a story of wrongdoing by both Doreen Boxer and Lauri Ferguson as well as Mike Ramos in this situation for several months.  Boxer/Ferguson have put up one roadblock after another to keep the story out of the press.   Now maybe the story will get told.  And perhaps our Board of Supervisors will realize the consequences of their indecision.

Our condolences to the family.

iePolitics: A new addition to our attorneys list

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We have a new firm to add to our list of attorneys we can recommend.  Jeff Lawrence is one of many attorneys who left the Public Defenders Office when defending clients became less of a priority under Doreen Boxer and Lauri Ferguson.

Jeff was one of the Public Defender’s top attorneys.  He specialized in  murder cases, having won acquittals in more of those cases than any other attorney in the department.

His site is still under construction but can be found here:  Jeff Lawrence

iePolitics: Tips

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I did not realize until yesterday that when I changed out my Blackberry a few weeks ago my voicemail was not properly set up.  I started to think about it yesterday because several people called who would normally leave messages and didn’t. Or so I thought.  It was the icon that wasn’t working properly.

So, I found 50 or so voicemails that have been there for weeks.  I went through them all and there were two that I could not make out enough except to know someone was trying to pass along information to me regarding the Public Defender’s office.  If you would try again, I would appreciate it.

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iePolitics: OMG, Doreen Boxer could be in a heck of a lot of trouble

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Not from the San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors because we know they don’t have backbone to do anything.  Nope.  This time it could be from the State Bar of California, as in losing a Bar card.

Yes, this is a teazer.  I can’t write much more yet.  I have an excellent source on this one, but if anyone at the Public Defender’s office knows what I’m talking about and would like to send the document to me, I can be reached at PO Box 2722, Apple Valley, California 92307.  I believe the actual document was authored by Lauri Ferguson.

I will post more just as soon as I’m allowed to.

iePolitics: County’s top lawyers all on thin ice

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San Bernardino County’s three top lawyers may be “former” employees by year’s end.  San Bernardino County District Attorney Mike Ramos, Public Defender Doreen Boxer, and County Counsel Ruth Stringer all are in precarious positions at best.

Although mainstream media has refused to cover the antics of District Attorney Mike Ramos, iePolitics and InlandPolitics have covered them extensively.  We have been accused of libeling poor Mikey.  But the seeds he has sown are about to come back to haunt him and prove that we are the ones with truth on our side.

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Bruce McMahon: Doreen Boxer and union busting: How it will end up hurting the client

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Since Doreen Boxer and Lauri Ferguson have come to power, we as deputy public defenders have been told that everything that their administration has done has been for the benefit of our clients.  However, upon a closer look of the actions of Ms. Boxer and Ms. Ferguson, their actions have had the sole purpose of benefiting one entity: their own administration.  Their statements about the sole concern being the public defender client is a mere distraction to a much more serious conspiracy:  the breaking of our union and the destruction of our office as we have known it.

You may be asking yourselves how this may be so, but the evidence is there.  When Ms. Boxer made a statement to the California State Bar during a public hearing regarding Proposed New and Amended Changes To Rules Of Professional Conduct on October 7, 2006, she stated that she had “…walked into an office equally decimated…”  (Reporter’s Transcript, Page 37, lines 22-23).  Let’s be perfectly honest, Interim Public Defender Jerry Farber left our office in MUCH BETTER shape than we find it now, more than 4 years after Doreen Boxer took it over.  Under Mr. Farber, morale was in good shape, camaraderie was high, and people were generally happy.  Now in 2010, morale is in the toilet, units are broken up for too much camaraderie and people are extremely unhappy.

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iePolitics: US Department of Justice

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I don’t share these types of hits much any more because they have become so routine, but I know our Public Defender friends are always in need of a morale booster.  Here is something that may or may not have significance.  At least we know they are looking.



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Tic . . . tic . . . tic . . . Mikey, Doreen, Paul, Josie, get yourselves ready!

iePolitics: So who is fornicating now?

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San Bernardino County’s law firm, Boxer, Ramos & Stringer (remember Mikey likes to be in the middle), is at it again.  We learned of their speciality months ago when chief legal Beagle Ruth Stringer determined that fornication is part of the “deliberative process” and taxpayer monies spent for said fornication is not the business of the taxpayers.  We are supposed to take it in the shorts, literally.

Well our favorite ménage à trois has defied logic and sound legal reasoning yet once more.  Until recently the county reluctantly released information regarding the costs of civil litigation against former Assessor Bill Postmus, et al.  The investigation was originally capped at $250,000 but former Enron prosecutor and special investigator John Hueston went through that amount quickly.

From all appearances, the cost of the investigation/persecution has already exceeded $1 million or is quickly approaching that mark with nothing to show for it and likely no hope of ever showing anything for it except for a conviction and judgment against Adam Aleman.  Aleman is the only one to plead guilty and not file an answer.

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Bruce McMahon: Doreen Boxer And Morale Boosting: Don’t Believe The Hype!

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It appears that Doreen Boxer and Lauri Ferguson have been making various trips to public defender offices around the county in order to “spend time with the troops” and boost morale.  Doreen and Lauri attended a potluck in the central office and then Boxer went to the Fontana office solo to see how everyone was doing.  All of this from the two people who are responsible for the lowest morale in recent office history.  Remember, this administration has been transferring individuals from certain units for there being TOO MUCH camaraderie (camaraderie = morale).  It’s almost like having someone shoot you in the gut and then ask you how you’re feeling as you’re laying there bleeding.

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iePolitics: The Public Defender Lawsuit

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This story will be revised tomorrow.  Here are a few of the documents that were sent to me:  scan0002 I will try to scan it again tomorrow to see if I can get it to scan all in the same direction.  For now you’ll have to print it out.

Would someone from the Public Defender’s office please send me a rundown of what happened to cause Doreen Boxer and Ruth Stringer to sue the Public Attorneys’ Association and explain how it got to the point of the Public Attorneys’ Association now asking Judge Christopher Warner for approximately $80,000 in attorneys’ fees and costs?

iePolitics: Public Defender Issues

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Here is a scan of what I received today: scan0001

There are two issues with what this informant claims.

First is the issue of being a county employee with a criminal record.  I have seen the county try to fire employees for less than drunk driving.  I have also seen them hire convicted felons.  In one case the employee went to state prison not once, but twice, on felony drug charges and was hired back both times while on parole.  So if you are a favorite, it doesn’t matter what you do.  And if you are not, you better not get a jaywalking ticket.

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Bruce McMahon: We Either Rise Together or Fall Apart

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To my fellow employees:

As you all know, much has been said over the last week regarding Doreen Boxer and Lauri Ferguson.  These statements, however, have just been reiterations of what most, if not all of us have felt about the public defender administration.  My letter that iepolitics.com had graciously printed is just an amalgamation of fears and concerns that have been stated in hushed tones in every break room, office, and lunch table in every corner of our county.  These statements have to do with the injustice, the deceit and fear that have been doled out on a daily basis by both Ms. Boxer and Ms. Ferguson and their so called “administration.”

We have seen it all:  the termination of phenomenal attorneys, investigators, and staff; the vindictive reassignments or transfers of our colleagues; false statements by Ms. Boxer to give up our negotiated pay increases to save our colleague’s jobs, only to see them fired and watch as new Deputy Public Defender I positions open up; ridiculous office polices designed to damage our morale or frustrate our unions; and the most disturbing of all, a general lack of regard for the employees of an administration who claims its mission is to defend the rights of others!

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iePolitics: A Couple of Emails from the Public Defender’s Office

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The link in this first one is quite disturbing.  It hasn’t been updated in a very long time.  Could someone please tell us the current status?

Hello,
Here’s some info on the “Retired” Supervising Investigator from the Public Defender Randy Bliss that is now employed back at the Public defender as a contract employee with the same duties. He is also a “retired” employee from San Bernardino Police Dept. Here is information provided by San Bernardino defense attorney Don Jordan about what Randy Bliss did at San Bernardino Police. Hope this helps in your efforts against the current administration at the PD. Bliss and Ferguson are very close friends. Bliss works directly for Chief Investigator Martin Dante: http://www.silvercloud.net/freejimmy/

iePolitics: Can justice be found in San Bernardino County – Part 5

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The administration of justice is the firmest pillar of government.

~George Washington~

I intended for the final installment in this series to profile the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department.  But how many times can I write about the incestuous relationships between District Attorney Mike Ramos, Conflict Panel attorneys, Public Defender Doreen Boxer and judges—relationships that often should be prohibited by conflict laws if not their own sense of integrity and morality?  Unfortunately, as we know “integrity and morality” are not important qualities to many of these individuals.

Today I was listening to closing arguments in the Rex Gutierrez case and it hit me as to why I feel so strongly about these corruption cases.  I decided to change my focus for this last article from the Sheriff’s Department to the pursuit of justice by the unjust.

Defense counsel are paid to do one thing and one thing only and that is to mitigate the circumstances in which criminal defendants finds themselves.  In a perfect world, the accused would admit guilt if they are in fact guilty and take their punishment like a man.  But then again, in a perfect world, actually crime would not exist and there would be no need for a justice system. Continue reading →

iePolitics: Can justice be found in San Bernardino County? – Part 3

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Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both. — Eleanor Roosevelt

So far in this series we have discussed the District Attorney’s office and the Conflict Panel.  There are three other components to justice, or the lack thereof, in San Bernardino County:  the Public Defender, the Sheriff’s Department, and the Superior Court bench.  Today, we will discuss the office of the Public Defender.

The Mission Statement on the wall of the Public Defender reads:

The Public Defender protects the constitutional rights of indigent defendants by providing skilled legal counsel and passionate advocacy at all critical phases of state level criminal and civil commitment litigation.

It is hard to believe that Public Defender Doreen Boxer would have the audacity to post such a blatant lie once one knows what really goes on at the Public Defender’s office.  iePolitics has been contacted by numerous Public Defender employees with stories of retaliation for helping clients and tales of conspiracy with the district attorney’s office to the detriment of justice.   And both actions seem to be allowed and rewarded.

But is it really that bad?  I mean, crooks going to jail, and deservedly so, is a good thing, right?.  The Sixth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States reads:

In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the Assistance of Counsel for his defence.

So, yes.  It really is that bad.  Anything that violates the Constitutional rights of any citizen of the United States is bad, very bad.  Perhaps today it is a serial murderer but tomorrow it could just as easily be you or I.  Once we lose our freedoms granted to us by the Constitution of the United States, America no longer exists.  And that why what is happening in San Bernardino County’s justice system is so troubling.  Literally, we are watching those who have committed no crime be prosecuted with malice.  And those who are trying to defend any who have been charged, punished for doing their jobs. Continue reading →

iePolitics: Can justice be found in San Bernardino County? – Part 1

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Good lawyers know the law; great lawyers know the judge.  — Author Unknown

Justice is defined as “the upholding of what is just, especially fair treatment and due reward in accordance with honor, standards or law.”   In other words, in a county run by scoundrels, justice is hard to find.

In part one of this series we are going to examine the San Bernardino County District Attorney’s Office, District Attorney Michael Ramos, and the relationships the office and its elected leader enjoys with the county’s criminal justice system.

Let’s start by defining the role of a district attorney in California.  California Government Code section 26500 states:

The district attorney is the public prosecutor, except as otherwise provided by law.

The public prosecutor shall attend the courts, and within his or her discretion shall initiate and conduct on behalf of the people all prosecutions for public offenses.

As you can see, the definition is simple, yet broad.  The ability to “initiate and conduct on behalf of the people all prosecutions for public offenses” makes a county’s district attorney one of the most powerful positions at the local level.  And when that ability is mixed with politics, it becomes one of the most dangerous. Continue reading →

iePolitics: Can justice be found in San Bernardino County? – Introduction

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Justice in San Bernardino County has become as elusive as a Sasquatch or the Lockness Monster.  Perhaps not as evident to the public but obvious to many of those close to the system who witness the backroom deals, the personal relationships between oppositing parties, and the actions taken for political gain.  Only in San Bernardino County do we have the Public Defender sleeping with the District Attorney literally; the Conflict Panel, which is supposed to represent indigent defendants, donating heavily to the District Attorney and Sheriff; and judges with financial arrangements connected to officers of the court.

“Innocent until proven guilty” is simply a slogan of a bygone era that has given way to a system of justice mired in politics and apathy.  The Constitution of the United States be damned if it doesn’t fit the political plans of a chosen few who are not afraid to use the power granted to them by that same constitution to  use the justice system for political and financial gain. Continue reading →