PDs protest Wolf’s departure
Jul 20th, 2010 by Barbara L. Jones
As we reported last week, Marie Wolf has left the state appellate public defenders’ office. She says she was fired after asking to leave management and return to a full-time caseload. Unsurprisingly, the PDs have not taken this quietly, and have sent a letter of protest signed by nine lawyers to Chief Appellate Defender David Merchant, as well as State Public Defender John Stuart, Chief Administrator Kevin Kajer, and the board of public defense. They request Merchant to honor Wolf’s request to remain in the office as a practicing attorney and not a manager and term themselves and the office “even further demoralized.”
Interestingly, the letter also says that it was announced at the recent public defender chief’s meeting that the budget is on better footing and more attorneys will be hired.
