Sunday, March 25, 2012 – 11:50 a.m.
Over a year ago San Bernardino County sued the San Bernardino County Public Attorneys Association over the union using Deputy District Attorneys to represent Deputy Public Defenders in low level grievance and disciplinary matters.
A practice former Public Defender Doreen Boxer didn’t care for.
You see the union represents Deputy District Attorneys, Deputy Public Defenders and Child Support Attorneys and uses its members to act as labor representatives.
Boxer believed the arrangement posed a conflict of interest.
So she enlisted the help of former County Counsel, and crack legal mind, Ruth Stringer to sue the union in order to stop the practice.
Well the initial suit didn’t go well.
A San Bernardino County Superior Court Judge immediately threw out the case and suggested the union seek the recovery of legal fees.
A second judge awarded the union attorneys fees of approximately $75,000.
The Board of Supervisors, acting on more crack legal advice from Stringer, opted for their standard we’ll show you approach, appealed the fee award to Division Two of the California Fourth District Court of Appeal.
A tentative opinion was issued on March 9 and, as usual, it didn’t go well for the county.
The county has now requested oral argument before the appellate justices in advance of the final ruling.
Now the county will likely pay the union trial court costs plus costs on appeal.
An amount likely exceeding $100,000.
Stringer, on the other hand, has departed county service after taking a years worth of vacation leave, and is enjoying her $308,000 a year pension.
Stringer was an incompetent moron who was allowed to stay by Gary Another Moron Ovitt, the biggest remaining crook on the BOS, and LaRaza Gonzales, along with the LewisWhore Rutherford.
Stringer has cost the county millions in bad advice all the while she was ripping them off for undeserved salary and benefits. The current county counsel is not much better. ThaNKS ovitt YOU SCUMBAG.
I thank the universe for this union..it helped us get rid of Boxer and her lapdog
Ferguson. Both are gone. One former attorney is suing Boxer, and Ferguson. I hope he wins and if their is any fairness left io this crazy world, he will win.The County keeps losing yet it keeps carrying on with its wasteful ways. That’s why the initiative to make the BOS part-time will probably win.
They just don’t get it
I was in court last week for Jury duty, and to my surprise, I found Boxers name as a DPD for a jury trial being held that afternoon. Is this the same Boxer?
Yep, just answered my own question, Doreen Boxer was the Attorney, can’t tell if she is private, contracted out by county, or is still a county DDA…. Any takers on this question?
Boxer was NEVER a DDA.
@Anon – you are correct. My bad. In the haste to post my answer should have been PDA. I believe she is a contracted attorney for the PD Office, but don’t know for sure….
Ms. Boxer was fired as THE public Defender..if her name appears on the docket it was an old entry or she was privately retained..she no longer works for the County (thank God)..
Dep Public Defender: Who gets the credit for firing Boxer?
The Attys Assoc and Sup. Derry gets credit for getting rid of the pestilence. The Cowards Ovitt, et al were dragging their feet, as usual. The Prosecutors and Defenders Union is the best union of all of them.
We PDs credit the Union and Supervisor Derry for finally convincing the
BOS that there was a cancer in the PDs office. It took to long to get rid of the evil twins, but still we are gratefull for their departure.
Don’t tout this union too soon as they are all too quick to recommend we give into the County offer of giving up pension contributions. Where is the fight in that move?
There is alot to this Public Defender’s office the general public doesn’t know about. It is not a surprise to me that they are scratching each other’s back. I have made the same allegation about them making a backroom deal with the D.A. to keep me out of the court room and prevent a trial and pilfering taxpayer’s money by representing me when they knew they should not have and denied me the right to a fair trial while under the tenor of Doreen Boxer. The emails I have posted on my Facebook page “Deaf Right’s Violations” have all the e-mails between Board of Supervisors Janice Rutherford, Sheriff’s Dept. Sgt. Paul Wynn and Public Defender Jennifer Cannady and I have the emails between Mark Shoup and myself on his county email account that he so willfully disregarded and seemed to have little importance to him due to his lack of response in a timely manner. This has been ongoing since 2008. My page will explain the rest of it.
Any one interested in knowing the details about the attorney suing the county and Boxer should go get motion to stike recently filed by Boxer. There is a declaration and several references and exhibits surrounding the whole ordeal. It will cost you about $40.00 but it’s worth it. Better than relying on rumors and comments made by haters on the blog. The attorney’s union paid Derry to fire Boxer. Everyone knows how this county is run. Favors for favors. I can’t wait until the right people get wind of what of what’s happening around here. If police officers cand be called Brady cops for lying on the stand and in reports and hiding evidence. Then what do you call public defenders and investigators who do the same thing? Nicolas Ibarra I’m checking out your page.