Letters,
Criminal
Aug. 14, 2017
Prosecutor misses the forest for the trees
A response to my column on proposed changes to the special prosecutor rule used the tactic of quoting selected sentences or words from my column, then drifted into rants about different topics.
Michael Ogul
Deputy Public Defender
Santa Clara County Public Defenders Office
120 W Mission St
San Jose , CA 95110-1715
Phone: (408) 299-7817
Fax: (408) 998-8265
Email: michael.ogul@pdo.sccgov.org
UC Hastings
Michael is past president of the California Public Defenders Association
In his six-column letter to the editor published in the Journal on Aug. 2, Los Angeles Deputy District Attorney Marc Debbaudt claims that my column of July 25, "A Clearer Prosecutor Rule Would Benefit All," contains distortions. Although he ultimately did not dispute the only point of my column -- that the language of proposed Rule of Professional Conduct 5-110(d) would be clearer if the qualifier "significant" was deleted from discussion comment [3] -- he felt the ne...
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