Legal Question in Criminal Law in California

Re: Receiving a copy of discovery with everyone's info on it

There is nothing wrong with a vision-impaired attorney receiving assistance from a non-lawyer. After all, the assistant isn't the one practicing law. The assistant probably doesn't have to be a paralegal, so consider yourself lucky that the one helping your lawyer is.

You seem to think the attorney either should work without an assistant (which is difficult even for sighted attorneys) or should be assisted by a fellow lawyer (which is expensive for the employer and unlikely to satisfy the assisting attorney). I don't think either of these requirements would make much sense.

Re: Receiving a copy of discovery with everyone's info on it

Even if he could see, he'd still be a public defender.

Re: Receiving a copy of discovery with everyone's info on it

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Re: Receiving a copy of discovery with everyone's info on it

Yes, the names and the phone numbers of the witnesses and victims should have been redacted from the report before being given to anyone. Your lawyer could potentially get into trouble for letting it happen.

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