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InlandPolitics: S.B. County: Defense panel contributes nearly $100,000 to Ramos

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  • Written by Senor Blogger
  • Posted April 11, 2010 at 9:49 am

Ramos

Several months ago stories ran here and on iePolitics.com exposing substantial political contributions to Ramos by two attorneys who control the San Bernardino County criminal defense conflict panel.

The two attorneys James Spring and Earl Carter have showered Ramos with money either directly or through their recently formed firm of Carter, Spring, Schank & O’Connor.

Campaign finance records filed by Ramos with the San Bernardino County Registrar of Voters show on January 15, 2010 the new firm dropped another $10,000 into the Ramos re-election committee. The recent contribution brings the total that Spring and Carter has directed to Ramos to $93,000 since January 1, 2004

Ramos receievd $30,000 of the total from June 9, 2009 trough January 15, 2010. Continue reading →

InlandPolitics: S.B. County: Ramos continues to accept money from defense panel (Update)

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  • Posted February 26, 2010 at 6:19 pm

San Bernardino County currently sports one of the highest, if not the highest plea bargain rates in the state.

A not so flattering statistic to say the least.

Ramos

Over the last several years county supervisors have gave additional millions in budget funding to District Attorney Mike Ramos. The result. More plea bargains with criminal defendants.

Several months ago stories ran here and on iePolitics.com exposing substantial political contributions to Ramos by two attorneys who control the San Bernardino County criminal defense conflict panel. Continue reading →

iePolitics: S.B. County: Time to Consolidate the Public Defender and the District Attorney

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In iePolitics’ always-continuing quest to assist San Bernardino County administrators in balancing their budget, we have happened upon an obvious cost-cutting measure.  We know that District Attorney Mike Ramos and Public Defender Doreen Boxer have already joined . . . um . . . forces, in a Biblical sense of course, so the next step only makes sense.  It’s time to consolidate the two departments and allow District Attorney Ramos to have the final decision over all criminal proceedings in San Bernardino County.

“We can’t do that,” you say.  Why not?  Conflicts of interest do not seem to be of concern to anyone.  Take for example, one of the most recent campaign contributions to Ramos of $10,000.  That contribution brings the total to $83000 that the law affiliation of conflict panel attorneys James Spring and Earl Carter have given to Ramos since 2004 to support his re-election.  This equates to 15 to 20 percent of all campaign contributions received in that same period.  The conflict panel attorneys are Ramos’ single largest contributor. Continue reading →