The Da has filed a criminal case against me, and I am not guilty of what they are charging me with. My question is why does the DA get away with doing whatever he wants. The DA knows that money is an issue and that I don't have a bunch of money to pay for a lawyer, and knows that if he puts it off long enough I will not have the money to pay for my lawyer when it goes to trial. The readiness hearing was set for Oct 16th, but has been postponed several times since then, because the DA did not give their discovery to my attorney in time for him to review it, and then because they did not have a $ amt as to what they think I am responsible for in the charges against me. I have spent about $50,000 so far in attorney's fees, already refinanced my home to do that, and now because the DA keeps postponing it I will not be able to pay my atorney to represent me at the trial since he says that I would have to pay him up front what $amt they think I will owe them, possibly somewhere around $15,000. This is what the DA has wanted all along, knowing that if they delayed it long enough I would run out of money before it went to trial.
What is wrong with our system that I have had to go through all of this, spend what I have worked so hard to have for retirement and then it is all for nothing because I can't even afford to go to trial to defend myself! I thought there was a law that protected me by having guidelines as to a speedy trial. Why would the judge not reprimand the DA for his continued effort to postpone the trial? I can understand it once, but it has been postponed now three times, and always because of the DA.
I have really lost faith in our system after all of this, I feel like I have no rights! I have never been in any kind of trouble with the law, no record of any kind. I have worked for the past 44 years to get to this point in my life where I am ready to retire and then to have it all thrown out the window because the DA has got it in his head that I am guilty of something that I had nothing to do with, and the only way I can prove my innocence is by going to trial, and now I can't afford to do that!
I have heard nothing but horrible stories about public defenders and I will not rely on one to defend me in this case because I know it would do me no good.
What is wrong with our system that I have had to go through all of this, spend what I have worked so hard to have for retirement and then it is all for nothing because I can't even afford to go to trial to defend myself! I thought there was a law that protected me by having guidelines as to a speedy trial. Why would the judge not reprimand the DA for his continued effort to postpone the trial? I can understand it once, but it has been postponed now three times, and always because of the DA.
I have really lost faith in our system after all of this, I feel like I have no rights! I have never been in any kind of trouble with the law, no record of any kind. I have worked for the past 44 years to get to this point in my life where I am ready to retire and then to have it all thrown out the window because the DA has got it in his head that I am guilty of something that I had nothing to do with, and the only way I can prove my innocence is by going to trial, and now I can't afford to do that!
I have heard nothing but horrible stories about public defenders and I will not rely on one to defend me in this case because I know it would do me no good.
