Assistant Public Defender

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Assistant Public Defender
Duties: Provides legal advice to clients. Interviews clients and witnesses to obtain information necessary for preparing a defense. Participates in plea negotiations with prosecutors regarding the pending case. Advises clients on plea offers, options, and potential for success at trial or other disposition of cases. Directs the work of investigators, mitigation specialists and legal assistants in the preparation of a defense. Seeks from the Court any necessary funding for outside experts in the preparation of a defense. Performs legal research. Searches resources and studies legal records and documents to obtain information applicable to case issues under consideration. Obtains documents by subpoena and other discovery methods. Drafts briefs, motions, orders, subpoenas and other legal documents, as well as correspondence and reports. Identifies any affirmative or de facto defenses and tactical procedural choices for clients. Prepares cases for court and conducts hearing and trial related to pending cases. Provides narrative, descriptive entries in client files of opinions, impressions, and facts collected. Preserves any potential error for appellate points. Advises clients of the constitutional rights waived by pleading guilty and the potential direct and collateral consequences of a guilty plea. Advises non-citizen clients of the specific immigration consequences of criminal convictions. Selects juries, examines and corss-examines witnesses, drafts and argues jury instructions and argues cases to the jury. Staffs other cases assigned to the office with other attorneys and staff. Responds to telephone calls from non-clients, family members of clients and walk-in customers, including private attorneys seeking advice and counsel.

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