To the editor:

I am compelled to respond to Jay Sterling Silver’s Aug. 13 commentary, “The Indignities of Public Defending.” For many years I did public defender work as a pool attorney. More recently, I have been a public defender in several municipal courts, representing the full range of minor criminal drunken driving and motor vehicle offenses. As a pool attorney I handled everything up to defense of capital murder cases. I have never felt in any way that I am looked down upon by other lawyers.