Jennifer Rice Gets New Lawyer

No surprise to me. Jennifer Rice, who loves to bang ten year old students, was given a new lawyer following the dustup over an attempt by her public defender to declare a state law designating Jennifer a “predatory” child rapist unconstitutional. Now the public defender’s lackeys are taking over the case.

From the NewsTribune here:

A former Tacoma schoolteacher accused of having sex with a student has a new team of lawyers and a new trial date.

Pierce County Superior Court Judge D. Gary Steiner allowed Jennifer Rice’s previous lawyer, public defender Melanie MacDonald, to quit the case Wednesday. MacDonald’s colleagues John Chin and Jane Melby are taking over.

The decision came after Steiner briefly met in his chambers with deputy prosecutor Grant Blinn, MacDonald, Chin and Richard Whitehead, a supervising attorney at the Department of Assigned Counsel.

After allowing the change of counsel, Steiner postponed a hearing on a motion MacDonald made recently, asking that a portion of the law under which Rice is charged be declared unconstitutional.

In the motion, MacDonald contended that the law wrongly curtails the powers of the prosecutors pursuing the case against Rice. She asked the judge to dismiss a special allegation that classifies one of the crimes Rice is charged with as “predatory.”

I think the meeting in Judge’s chambers went something like, “WTF do you think you are doing? Srsly? Unconstitutional? Tell me you have better advice for your client than that. No? You’re fired. NEXT!”

You know this woman is guilty as sin because no one in her family will step up and chip in for a decent lawyer.