Allen Raffi Oghassabian

Allen represented me in a misdemeanor case when he was with the Public Defender's office. He came to trial completely unprepared; he was either unfamiliar with the case file, completely incompetent, or both because he did not present a single defense. He sat in silence while the prosecutor consis...tently violated the judge's pretrial rulings on what could be presented to the jury. The alleged victim gave testimony he KNEW wasn't true, (during pretrial, he argued against having that testimony presented) yet when she made those damaging statements to the jury, he said nothing. He didn't challenge the impossible scenario presented by the witnesses, and if he'd been familiar with the evidence, he'd have known they were lying. He NEVER MENTIONED TO THE JURY that the investigating police officer was himself under investigation--AT THAT TIME--for a potentially career-ending, Class I Civil Rights Civil Rights violation complaint I'd filed against him. This was an OBVIOUS clear conflict of interest yet Mr. Oghassabian never mentioned it to the jury. Worst of all, he violated client/attorney privilege--and records privacy laws--by sharing my medical history with the court while I wasn't there even though I SPECIFICALLY TOLD HIM not to. He put forth ZERO defense, let the prosecutor and witnesses say whatever they wanted, and didn't challenge or raise an objection to ANYTHING. Of COURSE I lost the case...under those circumstances, ANYBODY would have.