how can we force a public defender to work?

[PrincessD]

What is the name of your state? Florida

My husband is arrested for first felony degree.First he had one public defender,he quited and now the second public defender refuses to defend him as it should be!How can we force him to provide us discovery and how can we compel him to call witness on my husband's behalf?It sounds absurd but it is true and he is supposed to be our lawyer!Also we want to file pretrial motions but he refuses to enter them into court record.Is there any possible chance for me to find pretrial motion format?I appreciate any answer or advice!

[racer72]

Duplicate post, you only need to post once.

[memah56]

Idaho

Boy can I relate. I don't have any advice for you except to say that I totally understand and I wish there was somewhere to complain loud enough that something would change the system. I am on Social Security Disability as my only income so I can't afford an attorney on a "contempt" charge for not following my divorce decree. I was assigned a "Public Defender" who I had to make the first contact with. When I called him he didn't even know that he had been assigned to me. After a brief conversation about my case and the reason why I didn't follow the divorce decree, he said quote "you are going to jail". end quote. Then his last remark was "see you in court". Now this is definately someone that I want to represent me, RIGHT!

I wish you the best and if I hear of anything that can help you I will be more then happy to pass it on to you. Good luck!

[garrula lingua]

You have to be careful if you're on SSD. If you're in jail, gov benefits are supposed to stop.