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29 May 2020, 2:00 am by Christopher Tyner
  The North Carolina Commission on Indigent Defense Services announced this week that is has appointed Mary Pollard as the new Executive Director of the Office of Indigent Defense Services for North Carolina. [read post]
9 Jul 2010, 7:23 am by Steve Hall
Last year, the task force awarded counties statewide $31 million to run public defender offices and provide indigent defense. [read post]
7 Feb 2011, 1:50 pm by University of Virginia School of Law
  The ultimate conclusion both prosecutor and public defender offices must reach when making hiring decisions is whether candidate have engaged in sustained efforts to: (1) understand substantive and procedural concepts in criminal, constitutional, and evidentiary law (take as many crim law-related courses offered at Virginia including the two key clinics); (2) hone oral advocacy skills (moot court, oral advocacy classes); (3) understand the day-to-day work of attorneys, detectives,… [read post]
7 Sep 2010, 7:56 am by Ana Yáñez-Correa
I’ll be there presenting testimony focused mainly on funding related to indigent defense. [read post]
15 May 2008, 6:02 am
  The training web page created by the federal Office of Defender Services has many terrific federal defense resources, but it is sometimes dated and more can always be done during this (never-ending?) [read post]
21 May 2016, 4:28 am by SHG
This is the sort of amount the  government loves to throw out to the court, but doesn’t bear on the fact that it wasn’t all spent on Buell, but on legitimate investigative services like interviewing witnesses, and, to the extent it was spent on Buell, may well have been the best use of indigent defense funds ever. [read post]
19 Sep 2008, 6:27 am
  Most can't carry the cost of an office, a practice and a family without a regular revenue stream. [read post]
10 Dec 2006, 8:05 am
To properly manage a staff of more than 200 employees, our office needs to be in one location.Our agency has worked for years to professionalize indigent legal services in Marion County. [read post]
15 Dec 2011, 8:57 am by Steve Hall
” Texas Defender Service is a non-profit law firm with offices in Houston and Austin. [read post]
30 Mar 2007, 6:06 am
Everybody who has been involved in indigent defense for more than a couple of weeks (or prosecution or law enforcement or social services or any number of other jobs) knows the value of joking about things that in polite society are simply unspeakable. [read post]
28 Oct 2015, 12:27 pm by Dan Ernst
*Another exhibition on display in the Library Atrium on the beginnings of the Legal Services program of the Office of Economic Opportunity, featuring a vinyl record with a recording of a 1964 interview with Gary Bellow on the “Role of the Lawyer and the Problem of Poverty,” photos, and manuscripts, including Marna Tucker’s 1966 manuscript reflecting on her experiences with the Neighborhood Legal Services Program in Washington, D.C., “Justice… [read post]
1 Dec 2019, 4:59 am by SHG
The problem is paying taxes to cover the cost of indigent defense never got anyone elected to office, as it’s just not the sexiest use of public monies like cops, prosecutors or prisons. [read post]
13 Sep 2016, 8:11 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Recently the Texas Fair Defense Project joined with a national group and local counsel to sue Harris County over a money-bail system that jails people who can't pay. [read post]
17 Feb 2021, 4:08 am by SHG
When it comes to combatting structural racism, representation matters, and this is true for criminal defense as much as it is for health services, education, and civil legal services. [read post]
15 Feb 2012, 12:14 pm by Scott Key
He doesn’t know, for instance, that I am the chair of the amicus committee for the Georgia Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers and that our committee, in conjunction with our organization’s indigent defense committee chair provided amicus support for a similar proposed rule regarding conflicts in public defender’s offices. [read post]
20 Feb 2009, 8:00 am
  Over the last several years, the Association has specifically studied the state's system of providing indigent defense and other mandated legal services and has sought to ensure the quality of mandated representation for those unable to afford counsel, whether in criminal or Family Court proceedings. [read post]
8 Apr 2008, 7:50 am
Since then, public officials have had to address how to economically provide adequate defense services. [read post]
29 Aug 2014, 11:26 am by Daniel A. Burton, Esq.
Super. 681, there is no defense for a contempt charge based upon reconciliation between the parties so long as the restraining order remains active. [read post]