I can see it happening, clearly the brother don’t know anything about the law. Public defenders have a lot of cases dumped into them overwhelming them. One of the first thing they advice clients is to take a plea deal, maybe the brother is pushing back against it so he/she resulted in blackmail about jailing the mother. It’s still shitty of the picture the public defender to do.
HelixDab2@lemm.ee 2 months ago
But the defender has absolutely no power to jail the mother. Effective threats and blackmail require you to have some kind of ability to follow through on some level, and a public defender doesn’t.
Moreover, there are very few that would, since attempting to do that to a client would likely be some form of gross misconduct that could get you sanctioned or disbarred.
wildcardology@lemmy.world 2 months ago
That’s why he’s banking on the brother to not know that. Besides it’s the brother’s words against the public defender’s.
HelixDab2@lemm.ee 2 months ago
That scenario is so improbable that, without any evidence other than an incoherent post on NSQ, no one can reasonably claim that’s what’s going on.
wildcardology@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Ok, I get it now. You’re on the side that public defenders cannot do anything shady.
The brother is alleging that the public defender threatened him that he will jail his mother if he doesn’t take the plea deal. Is that really improbable?
The fastest way for a case resolution is for the defendant to take a plea deal. That’s a minimum of one day of work. A trial can take weeks or even months. Like I said public defenders are overworked and under paid. They want the cases assigned to them done quickly.