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I hired an attorney to represent my son on a drug charge. I paid $13,000 to the attorney. She told me that he had a hearing but it turned out to be a trial. I live in another state and had to hire another attorney for $1,000 to also appear at the trial in hopes of getting a delay. I believe the original attorney gave me the wrong info so I wouldn't show up to see that she'd done nothing and wasn't prepared for trial. The bar (ACAP) won't mandate she send a copy of the file, though I've many times conceded to pay for the file. I have my son's POA for legal matters. My son has ADD and a learning disability. The attorney never met with him once at the very beginning of the case. I believe I can prove the attorney either doesn't have a file or a bare-bones file. We've been trying since 2012.
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What you can do is ask the clerk to send you copies of the entire file, or go to the clerk and have copies made. What you have said here does not indicate that the attorney did anything wrong. So, you need to come up with a lot more than what you wrote here. Get copies and take them to another criminal defense attorney who has many decades of experience. Also get a complete transcript of the trial, including the jury selection. Then, the attorney will be able to see whether there might be any post conviction relief available to your son.
Answered on Mar 29th, 2016 at 9:33 AM