She helped me twice. Once for a 4 point Speeding ticket & another time for a Careless Driving ticket with Improper Display / Unclear Plates ticket accompanying. The first incident was reduced to 2 points. The second incident the Unclear Plates ticket was thrown out and I pleaded guilty to Failure to Obey a Traffic Control Device.
My stepson was in court today for multiple offenses that could have resulted in loosing his driver's license. In consultation Ms. Brennan surmised that she may be able to plea the charges down to just 2 points instead of 8.
University of Notre Dame ( BA) Northwestern University School of Law ( JD) Michael Brian Brennan (born 1963) is a United States Circuit Court Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. He was first nominated on August 3, 2017, by U.S. President Donald Trump, and was re-nominated in 2018. He was confirmed May 10, 2018.
On May 9, 2018 , the Senate agreed to invoke cloture on his nomination by a vote of 49–47. Brennan's nomination was confirmed on May 10, 2018 , by a vote of 49–46. He received his judicial commission on May 11, 2018.
On January 5, 2018, President Donald Trump announced his intent to renominate Brennan to the Seventh Circuit. On January 8, 2018 , his renomination was sent to the Senate. On January 24, 2018 , a hearing on his nomination was held before the Senate Judiciary Committee.
On February 15, 2018, the Senate Judiciary Committee voted on a party line vote to report Brennan's nomination. Democrats strongly objected to the vote, noting that Senator Tammy Baldwin was still withholding her blue slip. On May 9, 2018, the Senate agreed to invoke cloture on his nomination by a vote of 49–47.
Upon the announcement of his nomination, Senator Tammy Baldwin criticized President Trump for bypassing the bipartisan commission composed to vet potential judicial candidates. She withheld her blue slip. However, her Republican counterpart in the Senate, Senator Ron Johnson, praised the nomination.
Julie learned early in her career that she enjoyed practicing law best when she was helping individuals. She has been a trial attorney from the day she was sworn to practice law in 2004, spending the majority of her workday in the courtroom.
Brennan is a creative problem solver who handles every kind of criminal case from speeding tickets and DWI to capital murder and criminal appeals. He knows that every case requires a unique approach to find the best way to protect his clients. Brennan knows that sometimes you win a case with a hammer and sometimes you need a softer approach.
traced back to the 17th century, the idea of the public defender was not proposed until 1893 by Clara Foltz, one of the nation’s first female lawyers.38 The first colo-ny-wide system of public prosecution predates the first public defender office on American soil by 210 years.39 In fact, by 1914, when Los Angeles County opened the first public defender office, all but five states in the nation had county level public prosecutor offices closely resembling those of today.40 As a result, while modern prosecutor offices had centuries to develop, indigent defense provid-ers did so more rapidly.
The role of the indigent defender cannot be properly understood without some comparison with the extraordi-narily broad powers of their courtroom adversaries. Pros-ecutors — and district attorneys in particular — are often described as the most powerful legal actors in criminal systems across the United States.64 As far back as 1931, scholars noted that “the prosecutor has more power over the administration of justice than the judges, with much less public appreciation of his power.”65 This underlying belief is the genesis of the current progressive prosecu-tor movement as a vehicle for criminal justice reform.66 Whether electing reform-minded district attorneys alone will lead to lasting transformational change is an open question, but the fact remains that prosecutors wield immense courtroom power that defense attorneys and their clients must confront every day.67 The power of prosecutors stems primarily from their largely unfettered and unreviewable discretion to bring charges and conduct plea bargaining. In an era of manda-tory minimums and enhanced sentences, the power to charge is ultimately the power to dictate the sentence.68 Prosecutors can use the threat of large mandatory mini-mums to leverage a plea deal with a lower sentence, making the term “plea bargaining” somewhat of a misno-mer. In general, the prosecutor will present a take-it-or-leave-it deal that raises a familiar dilemma to anyone involved in the criminal justice system: accept a plea for a reduced number of years or risk losing at trial and be sent to prison under an excessive mandatory minimum.
Across the United States, there are three main forms of indigent defense delivery: public defender offices, assigned counsel, and contract counsel. The method a state chooses has wide implications for the quality of representation:
Church is the lead plaintiff in an ongoing ACLU lawsuit against the state of Missouri for failing to provide the indigent with adequate legal representation. Complaint for Injunctive Relief at 3, Church v. Missouri,
funding indigent defense will require a large public investment — one that lawmakers have long been loath to make. But focusing only on this price tag misses costs borne by both the accused and society at large due to inadequate public defense.