Quote Originally Posted by kidicarus13 View Post
Not sure where you work but check out #7:
http://coloradodefenders.us/index.ph...=82&Itemid=121

I checked that out. Of course the government would make the documents vague in nature. I also did a little other research and a lot of information again seems vague. I happen to be close friends with a public defender and he has always told me it was easy to get one. I also had a civil rights law professor who was also a public defender and he again told me it was easy to get a public defender. Now I am wondering what their definition of "easy" is. I just emailed both of them asking for some clarification on the process. They both work/worked in different districts so I am also wondering what the process is like in different districts. It does seem that I see a lot of people represented by the public defender in court.

On a side note, the regarding dv and gun ownership drive me crazy. How is someone charged with harassment now restricted from owning a gun because his/her wife told the courts "I didn't like him touching me" or "I felt afraid when he yelled at me."?

My personal opinion is if you commit a crime against a person you should be restricted from owning one and those crimes are generally felonies so it doesn't matter. That's just my opinion. I hate how a person makes a slight mistake and they make him out to be a violent preditor that is out to kill everyone.

I love to tell all the advocates out there that I arrest the woman about 60 percent of the time and she is usually the one that called the police attempting to get her man in trouble. The law was made to protect women from serious abuse however the pieces of crap now use it to get their significant other in trouble when they are pissed at them.