Darla Mannery Palmer

I wish I had anything good to say but I don’t. I’m writing this to prevent any further harm done to families who put their hope into this woman’s hands. She is rude, unprofessional, and the least personable person I’ve ever encountered considering her job. She does not care to answer phone calls, mes...sages, emails, or even update the family on their loved one in jail. It’s honestly sad people still get her as a public defender because she does not defend at all nor does she even act like she cares. Don’t waste your precious time with her please. Find someone else asap!

I have been working with her for the last two years going on three with the case of my son, who has been incarcerated the whole time even before the hearing and he was actually sentenced. Nothing has been done. I have talked to her maybe 5-6 times over the phone and called over a thousand times just ...to hear her voicemail. I thought I was getting an advantage and doing something good by going out and hiring a lawyer instead of getting an appointed lawyer by the state, but it seems thus method with this lawyer on leaded to my dimise. It has been several times where she has not even showed up to the court hearing when my sons has had to go before the judge, she has not shwn up or called or said "Hello,I'm not makimg it today". And on top of that the only time my son has seen his lawyer was the day of court,she never went to check on him never called never gave him a status update on his case, she just collected the money and said to hell with the case or my son for that matter. Now after the two year wait for my son's court appearance, and all the promises from her that he will get around this time of the year, I only go to find out that he has been sentenced 6x the years he has already served for a petty non violent crime. I feel that as a lawyer she did not do ANYTHING IN HER POWER TO HELP US, after all the attempt to reach out and contact her the cries for help, the money that we didn't have to pay missing bills and almost getting a foreclosure on our house just to pay her because of my fixed income and my sickness she did nothing but apologize after the sentence, just a "I'm sorry" 2 years of hurt and pain from my family being broken up because my son was in jail and that's all I was rewarded with was apology. And I know that you may say I should have fired her a long time ago, but we had already invested so much into her that we wouldn't have been able to just pull out and find another lawyer and start payments all over again. And I know I can't compare the other defendants with my sons but every single last one of the people that was with him on trail was able to be at home with there families while my son was the only one that had to stay in and serve time. I'm not saying this to not recommend her as a lawyer or talk down or defame her by anyway, maybe she just had a lot going on or more on her plate then she could bear, but I just wished she would have told us our case would have been to much for her because she had other various things going on that needed more attention then she thought my son's case did.