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1 May 2007, 1:19 am
From The Connecticut Post:He helped smash an illegal wiretapping ring in the New Haven Police Department, but among Frank DeGrand's fondest memories in the law-enforcement field are the nearly three decades he spent with the public defender's office here. [read post]
21 Jun 2007, 9:27 pm
From NPR.com: Author Kevin Davis discusses his book, Defending the Damned: Inside Chicago's Cook County Public Defender's Office. [read post]
13 Jun 2008, 8:11 am
In the wake of Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price's high-profile putsch at the county's public defender office, many in Big D are taking seriously Price's threat to fire large numbers of lawyers, slash the PD office budget, or even eliminate it entirely.His timing couldn't be worse.Sometime soon the US Supreme Court will issue its opinion in Rothgery v. [read post]
24 Jul 2012, 10:48 am by Zoe Tillman
"If there's any place where academic performance matters, it's when you're representing someone who can't choose a lawyer for themselves," she said. [read post]
23 Aug 2007, 2:55 am
Case Number: 42-1981-CF-000170-AXXX-XX File Date: 02/04/1981 Judge: CARVEN D ANGEL DEFENDANT : LIGHTBOURNE IAN (DOB: 1959) Attorney: PUBLIC DEFENDER'S OFFICE Charges Date Citation Count Charge Level … [read post]
8 Nov 2008, 7:40 pm
"Citing Rising Workload, Public Lawyers Reject Cases": Sunday's edition of The New York Times will contain an article that begins, "Public defenders' offices in at least seven states are refusing to take on new cases or have sued to limit them, citing overwhelming workloads that they say undermine the constitutional right to counsel for the poor. [read post]
11 Jun 2014, 5:14 pm by Stephen Bilkis
They further note that the officer did not have his weapon drawn, the officer's tone of voice was conversational and the officer was located several feet away from the defendant. [read post]
3 Apr 2007, 1:23 pm
The subtitle of this major article is, Study: Dallas County could save millions using public defenders.Dallas County formed the state's first public defender's office more than two decades ago to offer inexpensive... [read post]
2 Jan 2011, 4:52 pm
"A public official pled guilty to a disorderly persons offense that directly involved or touched the official's public office. [read post]
18 Sep 2008, 2:49 pm
A Miami judge has ruled that the 11th circuit public defender's office can stop taking new third-degree felony cases. [read post]
1 Nov 2010, 3:04 am by Gritsforbreakfast
In Lubbock, the Avalanche Journal had a story yesterday about the county's Special Needs Defender Office created last year, a public/private hybrid system described thusly ("New screening, special defender's office helps Lubbock County with mentally ill"):while county officials agree more changes are necessary to ensure mentally ill defendants don’t languish in jail, improvements such… [read post]
18 Jan 2007, 11:08 am
A scurrilous, sometimes entertaining rant from a public defender client:On the wall in the waiting room of the public defender's office there's a wooden plaque. [read post]
31 May 2007, 4:55 am
Greer said the State Public Defender's Office is bringing on someone new to replace him but he didn't want to say too much about it.Some people say it's demanding, working in a public defender's office and handling 80 to 100 open cases at any time. [read post]
16 Dec 2008, 5:05 pm by Thaddeus Hoffmeister
This is the issue being appealed by the Missouri Public Defender's Office in State v. [read post]
11 May 2011, 9:03 am
Although the prosecution and the defense agreed that the Defendant's original offense was not related to his employment, the prosecution argued that forfeiture was warranted under N.J.S.A. 2C:51-2(a) because the Defendant engaged in "and offense involving dishonesty. [read post]
11 Feb 2014, 10:02 am
Recently the Orange County Public Defender's Office filed a 500 page brief with the Orange County Superior Court alleging that their client, Scott Dekraai, had his Constitutional Rights violated by intentional misconduct by the Orange County District Attorney's Office. [read post]
15 Nov 2010, 8:06 am by Steve Hall
  It's subtitled, "Tough legal veteran will launch Harris County Public Defender office. [read post]
31 Dec 2006, 11:00 pm
"Martin was named the supervising attorney at the office by Robin Huseby, the executive director of the state Commission on Legal Counsel for Indigents.There are a total of three lawyers in public defender's office, including Martin and associate attorneys Thomas J. [read post]
22 Aug 2011, 7:49 am by Steve Hall
" After years of handling death penalty cases as a federal public defender in California, which has the nation's largest death row but rarely carries out the ultimate punishment, Levenson now heads the year-old Texas Office of Capital Writs, an independent state agency tasked with scrutinizing capital murder trials to ensure that they were legally proper. [read post]