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- Advance your legal career and bring your passion for public service to the Public Defender's Office.
- The Public Defender and his Office have the mandated responsibility of defending any person who is not financially able to employ counsel and who is charged with the commission of any contempt or offense triable in the superior or municipal courts.
- Additionally, the Public Defender represents qualified individuals in probate and welfare proceedings, and may represent any person who is not financially able to employ counsel in proceedings relating to the nature or conditions of detention prior to adjudication.
- When you join the Office as a Deputy Public Defender II, you will perform legal work involving the investigation, preparation, and presentation of criminal and civil cases before the courts.
- Local schools continually rank high on California's Academic Performance Index, and the Santa Rosa Junior College and Sonoma State University offer higher education opportunities.
- This recruitment is being conducted to fill a Deputy Public Defender position in the Public Defender's Office at either the I, II, III, or IV level.
- Normally, one year of legal experience practicing as a licensed attorney in a position comparable to a Deputy Public Defender I in Sonoma County; or equivalent experience practicing criminal law as a licensed attorney generally would provide such opportunity.
- Working knowledge of: the duties, powers, limitations, and authorities of the Office of the Public Defender; the principles of criminal law, principles of trial procedure and rules of evidence; legal research methods and judicial procedures; statutory and constitutional laws of the State of California; written and oral communications, including language mechanics, syntax and English composition.
Deputy Public Defender II - Santa Rosa, United States - County of Sonoma (CA)
