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Government

Sep. 11, 2014

New Central District federal public defender is office No. 2: sources

Sources confirmed this week that Hilary L. Potashner, the current chief deputy federal public defender here, will succeed Sean Kennedy as the federal public defender for the Central District.


By Henry Meier


Daily Journal Staff Writer


LOS ANGELES - Hilary L. Potashner, the current chief deputy federal public defender in the Central District, will soon succeed Sean Kennedy as the federal public defender.


Potashner takes over at a challenging time for both the office and for public defenders nationally. The sequestration crisis last year cut an already razor thin budget for federal indigent defense even more. Kennedy, who helmed the ...

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