Month: June 2020
PJDC Condemns Santa Clara District Attorney Rosen’s Attack on Public Defender’s Free Speech Rights
On June 3, 2020, in the midst of national outrage over racial disparities and mistreatment of Black people in the justice system, Santa Clara County Alternate Public Defender Sajid Khan published a piece on his personal blog entitled, “be mad at the police, but be even madder at the DA’s offices that perpetuate and …
PJDC Stands in Solidarity Against Police Brutality and Anti-Blackness
“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.” Martin Luther King, Jr.
The Pacific Juvenile Defender Center will not be silent. PJDC members are juvenile defense attorneys and …