...just not here.
The latest includes 7th and 10th Circuits.
The 10th Circuit nominee caught my eye as a former defender. We need more!
Rich Federico joined the Federal Public Defender for the District of
Kansas in Topeka in 2017. He has served as the Senior Litigator since
2020 and previously served as an Assistant Federal Public Defender from
2018 to 2020 and as a Research and Writing Specialist from 2017 to 2018.
Mr. Federico also serves as a Captain in the United States Navy
Reserve, Judge Advocate General’s Corps. He has been a Military Judge
for the Navy Reserve Trial Judiciary since 2019, and he served as an
Appellate Defense Counsel from 2015 to 2019. Mr. Federico was an
Assistant Federal Public Defender for the District of Oregon in Portland
from 2015 to 2017. Before that, Mr. Federico served on active duty in
the U.S. Navy JAG Corps as a prosecutor from 2002 to 2008 and as a
defense counsel from 2008 to 2015. In his last duty station on active
duty, he served as Officer in Charge of two defense offices. He received
his LL.M., highest distinction, from Georgetown University Law Center
in 2012, his J.D. from the University of Kansas School of Law in 2002,
and his B.A.J. from Indiana University in 1999.
Meantime, some prosecutors continue to behave badly. From Reuters:
A former high-level U.S. prosecutor in Florida was sentenced on Wednesday
to six months of probation for a criminal ethics charge in which
authorities said she approved contracts in her office for companies that
financially benefited her husband.
Prosecutors
said Kathryn Drey, who served from 2019 to 2021 as chief of the civil
division of the U.S. attorney's office for the Northern District of
Florida, did not request or receive a waiver for what the government
called an "inherent conflict."
Drey,
licensed to practice law in Florida since 1998, pleaded guilty in
March. Prosecutors had asked U.S. District Judge M. Casey Rodgers to
impose a sentence of two years of probation.
"The
significant collateral consequences she has suffered — retirement from
public service and impending loss of her license to practice law —
provide a sufficient deterrent to promote respect for the law,"
prosecutors told Rodgers in a court filing last week.
I typically see the govt say that collateral consequences don't matter... so judges, please start taking this into account in all cases, not just prosecutors who get into trouble.