Kent's Federal Criminal Defense Update

Volume One, Number Six

September 1998

Table of Contents

  • Drug Czar Proposes Easier Access to Methadone - A Step in the Right Direction!
  • Eleventh Circuit Rules in Favor of Willie Washington
  • Willie Washington to Be Released on Appeal Bond Pending Mandate
  • Magistrate Judge Howard T. Snyder Orders Willie Washington Released
  • Willie Washington Encounters DEA Bus Search On Trip Home From Prison
  • Your Lawyer
  • Feedback
  • Guestbook - Make an Entry - For Publication or Private if You Choose
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    Your Lawyer

    Your lawyer is William M. Kent.  Mr. Kent was first admitted to practice by the State Bar of Florida in 1978.  He has also been admitted to practice before the United States Tax Court (1979), the State bar of California (1980), the Middle District of Florida (1989) and the United States Supreme Court (1992).  Mr. Kent is one of three lawyers in the Jacksonville office of the Federal Public Defender.  The other attorneys are James H. Burke, Jr., who is the Managing Assistant in charge of the Jacksonville office and Mark Rosenblum.  Both Mr. Burke and Mr. Rosenblum have over twenty years criminal law experience. The office has a full time Jacksonville investigator, Mr. Jerry Cribbs, and a paralegal specialist (who is also the only Federal Court Certified Spanish Interpreter in Jacksonville), Mr. Stephen Kruer.  The Jacksonville office's administrative and support staff consists of Mrs. Debbie Dixon and Mrs. Dottie Began.  The office hours are 8:30 to 5:00 Monday through Friday.  Collect phone calls are accepted during office hours at (904) 232-3039.  The office fax number is 232-1937.  Mr. Kent's E-mail address is bill_kent@fpdflm.org.

    If you are held in custody without bond, Mr. Kent will normally visit you once a week at the jail.  If you are released on bond, please contact Mr. Kent at least weekly.

    It is office policy to provide you with copies of all correspondence, pleadings  and documents coming into or going out of the office on your case.  Exceptions may be made in the case of certain sensitive documents relating to governmental cooperation for clients  who are  in custody.

     
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