Lake County Public Defender

They never answer the phone and they always hang up on you. Im still waiting on a callback from 3 weeks ago and they keep telling me my attorney not available i call everyday multiple times a day

My name is Michael Lee the public defender office works with the state attorney office to convict you. The public defender office only gets paid if you sign a plea or found guilty. They waive your right to speedy trial to help the Sao convict you. They don't investigate your case. They fail to use a valuable Defence in trial or vop hearing. I got found guilty for being at a child exchange when the no contact order was lifted by a legally binding joint stipulation to modify no contact order. I got arrested for protecting my children from my ex while I had a Injunction against her for pulling a handgun on me and pulling the trigger which is a 20yr mandatory and she never got arrested. I showed officer Todd of Leesburg Police video of her hitting on me and went to Sao to file charges they refused to WOW corruption at it's finest. I have pictures of marks on my daughter from ex and DCF heard my daughter say my mom did this to me No Charges. I have a settlement agreement that allowed me contact with my children also legally binding. Yet my pos public defender James Patricia Kelly failed to use a entrapment defense in my VOP hearing. I was given 1year Probation then 120days of jail on a 1st degree Misdemeanor when the max was 1year by Florida law. All my lawyers James Patrick Kelly , Gina Brice, Mona Payne from public defender office failed to review my case and failed to file a motion to suppress ,motion to dismiss, motion to determine immunity aka stand your ground. The police, Sheriff, Prosecutors, judges are corrupt. Know your rights fight and fight to win. Also lake county jail has a unconstitutional 1 hour per week law library that's put in place so you don't know the law so you can't beat your charges on the supreme Court has ruled that they have to give you adequate time in the law library adequate time is 22 to 40 hours per week or more. Lake county is corrupt also they violated me on probation while I was inside jail when I never saw my PO in the first place and there's nothing on the court dockets to even say that I got a probation order from the judge that's malicious intent to prosecute me. the bail system is designed to keep poor defendants in jail so that State Attorney's Office forces you to sign a plea otherwise you lose your job you lose your income you lose your kids you lose your apartment you lose your house so you're forced to sign a plea to get out if you can't afford for Bond so the whole system and itself is actually a joke and there's need for criminal reform in the United States of America especially Florida. And if you're facing criminal charges and you're poor they give you a rookie straight out of law School when all they study is federal and they don't know a damn f****** thing about state law and then you get stuck with a conviction because you had a f****** moron a newbie a noob lawythat yourer who didn't know how to adequately fight for your rights. also their workload is over the amount that the supreme Court authorized which I think is like 100 or 150 each public defender has about 200 plus 300 plus cases so in essence they actually can't adequately defend you and protect you and they're actually by the supreme Court's ruling from my understanding they actually all should be ineffective assistance of counsel is because their workload is over there over the authorized amount issued from the supreme Court so Michael Graves needs to do his f****** job and hire more people especially people who actually know how to fight for your rights not some rookie straight out of law school who's just going to screw you over and cost you your trial.

Found their staff very respectful and helpful in our out-of-state dilemma.

They are terrible need I say more there the worst I seen I think someone needs to talk a look at what goes on in some of these government offices and make some serious changes