Sonoma County Public Defender — Local services in Santa Rosa

I wanted to have my trial date within 30 days but my public defender said she needed back surgery and would like for me to reschedule. I have rescheduled numerous times for Emma Dewald and everytime a couple weeks before my court date or right before my court date she always transfers to another department and can no longer take my case. I still have not heard from my new lawyer she said I would be hearing from over a month ago. I have talked to Emma Dewald supervisor and left voice-mails and it seems nothing changes. At this point I feel like the public defenders office is trying to throw my case. If anyone would like to talk to me about what I have been going through over the past year, through the fires and through covid please leave your number below and...

I was overwhelming shocked at the ---Inappropriate Rude & Lazy Lack of Professionalisn & Knowledge of the Law No interest in preparing a defense or representing client No time to meet or prep court for hearings & zero response back! I keep going on, I'll run out of space . If beyond poor performance in hearing could be criminal, this PD should be areested, fired and lose license to practice any law. Playing with folks live is serious from ticket to murder doesn't matter . Observed corrusion to plea in order to not do any work and file this away . Hi so far to include DA in that pow-wow.anither was bold face lie about how to close case. Really I had never seen anything like it in my...

Public defender KAREN THOMPSON is a literal joke. How she still has a job is beyond me. She never answers her phone call nor does she ever call back. Obviously im trying to get ahold of you for a reason. Not to mention, the last court date, she was/is representing my boyfriend and she just up and leaves in the middle of court, 45 minutes goes by.... Still no sign of her... The court even has a break and then she finallu decides to show back up. How unprofessional. Its also pathetic that my boyfriends has told her on multiple occasions to share whats going on with his family if they ask... And she has...