Vance Patrick Odell

The court appointed this person and because the incident occurred in Mukilteo I was stuck with him. He refused to communicate by email, he refused to meet in person before the hearing, he told me we would seek a "deferred prosecution" but explained nothing about it, immediately after the hearing he ...told me the Snohomish probation dept. would explain "ICAOS" to me (something I'd not heard of before and the probation officer told me to research on the internet), and he told me to "sign the papers or I wouldn't be walking out of court that day" (the form was incomplete but he informed me he would fill it in after I signed it). I eventually was able to engage the services of a competent attorney but much of the damage he had caused appears to be irreversible. To characterize this person as incompetent is both charitable and accurate. His inaction coupled with a probation officer that was even less competent than he is the reason that I have wasted thousands of dollars and uncounted hours attempting to resolve a DUI that occurred in 2010. At the probation officer was eventually fired. The only reason this system is tolerated is that most citizens do not know how bad it is. But they will.