FEDERAL DEFENDER OFFICE

	Detroit Office 613 Abbott Detroit , MI 48226 313.967.5555 Flint Office 653 South Saginaw Street, Suite 105 Flint, MI 48502 810.232.3600
Miriam L Siefer Chief Counsel

 With 22 attorneys, four investigators and
11 support staff under the direction of Chief Defender Miriam L. Seifer,
the Federal Defender office represents indigent clients in all federal
courts for the Easter District of Michigan, including Detroit, Ann Arbor,
Flint and Bay City. When there are grounds for an appeal, the Federal
Defender will handle appellate proceedings, all the way to the Supreme
Court of the United States. In 2007, the Federal Defender Office
closed 887 cases, according to Seifer.

In 2007, the Department of Justice put an emphasis on prosecuting
individuals involved in child pornography, thus those cases in the
Federal Defender Office increased some 200 percent, according to
Seifer. There was also a drop in the number of gun cases under
Michigan’s Project Safe Neighborhood. Other types of cases handled
by the Federal Defender Office include fraud, immigration and other
federal felonies.