Nine years after The Florida Times-Union revealed then-Public Defender Matt Shirk to have committed so many scandals they can’t be contained in a single sentence, an official body finally took action against the man. To recap Shirk’s background: He’d never defended a homicide case and had little experience when he ran for office in 2008 on an anti-Obama Republican message that included a promise to never question the integrity of police officers and a vow to force poor defendants to pay the office back. Both promises were things he wasn’t constitutionally capable of accomplishing.
Former Jacksonville Public Defender Matt Shi…
Nine years after The Florida Times-Union revealed then-Public Defender Matt Shirk to have committed so many scandals they can’t be contained in a single sentence, an official body finally took action against the man. To recap Shirk’s background: He’d never defended a homicide case and had little experience when he ran for office in 2008 on an anti-Obama Republican message that included a promise to never question the integrity of police officers and a vow to force poor defendants to pay the office back. Both promises were things he wasn’t constitutionally capable of accomplishing.
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