Greetings To All!
Allow me to set the seen... My son was arrested on May 31 and in January of I hired the haughty, Barry O. Bernstein to represent my son charges of conspiracy to commit murder, conspiracy to intimidate a witness, and a gang enhancement. If convicted, my son faced life imprisonment. I paid Barry Bernstein $30k for his representation and after over 120 days on my son's case, Bernstein had not done one single thing that even resembled defending my son. Berstein never went to the jail to find out the details of the case from my son. Berstein would not take my son's calls, Bernstein only came to court for 1 of 5 court appearances causing forced time waivers. Bernstein breached his duty to competently defend my son and I terminated his services in May. Bernstein was profoundly irresponsible when it came to my son's case and his gross negligence almost guaranteed that my son was convicted when Bernstein tried to make my son make these outrageous admissions that weren't even true, we were fearful that Bernstein's obvious dis-interest in preparing for trial in my son's case would likely cause my son to be convicted based on ineffective assistance of counsel. My son began to represent himself and in September trial began and on December 11 my son was found not guilty. After thirty months of being locked up in the Riverside County Jail, my son was released from custody... Have you been the victim of Bernstein? If so, please reply!
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