I understand you cannot afford a private attorney. But you are going to need your current lawyer (the public defender appointed to help you).I have a fixed income and I can't really afford an attorney I thought if I just asked for the discovery and especially interrogatories to her and my former roommate and had the police reports of calling them on me that they would just drop it I'm sure she's not going to want to get on the stand. I haven't had any say in my defense. There was no response, no one has asked me one single thing about any of this.
Thank youI understand you cannot afford a private attorney. But you are going to need your current lawyer (the public defender appointed to help you).
What I suggest you do is write out very briefly what you want your attorney to do and what questions you have. Leave out any extraneous information. Bullet points would be good. Submit this list to your attorney (in care of the public defenders office if necessary).
Your lawyer works for you so should spend some time with you discussing your case prior to trial.
I agree that you need a lawyer. If you do this pro se (which means doing it yourself) you're going to face a lot of problems if you don't know the rules of criminal procedure. For example, you mentioned interrogatories. In most states, including Kentucky, interrogatories are a discovery device used only in civil cases, not criminal cases. And even in civil cases, the interrogatories are only directed at the opposing party. You don't serve interrogatories on third party witnesses. If you want their testimony, you need to subpoena them to appear at the trial. Once served with the subpoena whether they want to appear or not doesn't matter. The subpoena requires the person to show up. But you need to be sure before you put that person on the stand that the testimony will help your case.I have a fixed income and I can't really afford an attorney I thought if I just asked for the discovery and especially interrogatories to her and my former roommate and had the police reports of calling them on me that they would just drop it