Cynthia Lynn Review of Santa Barbara County Public De...
At a change of plea hearing on a felony case, the ...
At a change of plea hearing on a felony case, the prosecutor added "and you will be pleading to the misdemeanor case," I had no idea that was the DUI I received a year and a 1/2 ago and was booked for driving as under the influence of alcohol, even though I blew a BAC of 0.00 and the blood test came back negative for alcohol. Worse, the court also said, "and now we have the misdemeanor case, Mr. Williamson" (my PD) "we would like to enter no contest, your honor." Wait, wasn't I supposed to enter my own plea, and what misdemeanor case? And to the priors? asked the court. The two back to back DUI almost 10 years ago? Only months before they are removed from my driving record. K.C. Williamson, "We plead no contest to those as well." Priors? Oh, no he wouldn't, but he did. Without telling me the plea offer I accepted included pleading no contest to a DUI Alcohol when I had no alcohol in my system, and plead no contest to two prior DUIs when within a few months they would be 10 years old. My license has been revoked, worse the public defender's office refuses to represent me in court to correct the wrongful conviction.
For two years I called PD K.C. Williamson leaving messages on his voicemail asking for my case file. He never called me back. I was furious not knowing why he didn't tell me the entire plea offer. Before the end of the first year, my messages were acerbic, hateful and filled with expletives. Instead of sending me the case file, he filed charges against me and the SBPD did an investigation that is filled with lies that Mr. Williamson told. Based on that the SBPD recommended to the Merced DA that a charge of criminal threats should be filed. When we went to court, they had to withdraw the charge after I gave my lawyer copies of the emails I kept from his Superior as well as other factual evidence proving Mr. Williamson lied to the detectives conducting the investigation. How much money did Mr. Williamson cost both S.B. and Merced? Thousands of dollars for not upholding the standards of the Public Defender's Office. An error becomes a mistake when it's not corrected. Shame on Williamson, shame on the Public Defender's Office for not correcting the error that has taken my driver's license. When I do get pulled over for driving on a revoked license, only then I will have my day in court?
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