So, this is where the criminal docket began:
http://ia902603.us.archive.org/19/items/gov.uscourts.cod.151411/gov.uscourts.cod.151411.1.0.pdfand this is where it ended:
http://ia902603.us.archive.org/19/items/gov.uscourts.cod.151411/gov.uscourts.cod.151411.38.0.pdfSue the government for malicious prosecution and civil rights violations.
Wait, there are
a couple of restricted documents on the docket that only the prosecution and defense can view, and considering that it was dismissed WITHOUT prejudice, it seems that the government can refile charges without violating double jeopardy. WTF happened?
On the topic of public defenders:
At least for the case I was sworn on*, both prosecutor and public defender seemed to just want alert, impartial jurors who wanted to be there and weren't stressed from loss of wages (juror stipend is a joke) or unhealthy.
I was ~19 but had graduated from high school at 16, been a intern journalist and copy editor for the local paper, and adults told me I seemed like an old man since I was ~10. I took more notes during the trial than anyone, and when both attorneys talked to us afterward, the jury's consensus was 1) that the defendant was the victim and acted in self-defense, and the "victim" should have been prosecuted instead for drawing blood 2) I would have been the foreman.
*that went to mistrial because of "unavailable witness"
That particular public defender is who I would have wanted if I were in the defendant's shoes.