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2 Nov 2010, 1:35 pm
Earlier coverage begins here; related posts are in the indigent defense index. [read post]
9 Nov 2010, 8:00 am
I like the idea of a public defender’s office, but the idea of Commissioners’ Court, Harris County’s executive board, controlling, through the power of the purse, the defense function is little more appealing than the current ad hoc system of appointment of indigent counsel by elected judges. [read post]
27 Jan 2009, 10:03 am
Bill Rankin reports, "Defender authority may change," in Monday's Atlanta Journal-Constitution.Frustrated with an outspoken and critical Georgia public defender council, influential state lawmakers are moving to strip the council's board of its authority. [read post]
14 Sep 2011, 7:32 am
Creates statewide Office of Indigent Defense Services within the Finance Department and indigent defense advisory boards in each judicial circuit. [read post]
8 Feb 2007, 5:42 am
From nwitimes.com (Indiana):Layoffs and drastic funding cuts to the Cook County public defender's office are threatening to throw the already overburdened office into a crisis.Critics of the proposed budget cuts, outlined last week in a letter by Cook County Board President Todd Stroger's office, fear that diminished staff and resources will force the remaining attorneys to turn away many indigent defendants seeking their counsel. [read post]
8 Dec 2006, 5:38 am
Shealy served at the pleasure of the Public Defender Board of Directors, a little-known but mostly autonomous nine-member body appointed by the Charleston County Bar Association to oversee the office. [read post]
30 Jan 2009, 8:02 am
"Senate panel votes to defang public defender council's board," is Bill Rankin's report in today's Atlanta Journal-Constitution.A key legislative panel voted Thursday to strip the board of Georgia's public defender council of its power. [read post]
20 Jan 2011, 8:24 am
Indigent defense is facing cuts. [read post]
22 Nov 2006, 8:39 am
From The (New Orleans) Times-Picayune:Criticizing recent changes to reshape the Orleans Parish Indigent Defender Program, nine Criminal District Court judges Monday ordered the board overseeing the system to hire more attorneys to provide representation to impoverished criminal defendants. [read post]
14 Dec 2015, 8:26 am
Skier& Associates, has been selected to be a member of the board of Directors for the Federal Public Defender Organization serving the Middle Judicial District of Alabama. [read post]
10 Nov 2010, 7:54 am
By February, his office is expected to start representing mentally ill indigent defendants facing misdemeanor charges and appeals cases for the indigent. [read post]
28 Jan 2007, 5:42 am
The Georgia Public Defender Council, which administers the indigent defense system, is asking lawmakers for $9.5 million as quickly as possible so it can send the funds to local judicial circuits to pay for representing defendants who cannot afford to hire their own lawyer. [read post]
20 May 2007, 4:40 pm
Danny Martiny, chair of the House Criminal Justice Committee, is sponsor of a book-length bill that would create a new state board to take responsibility from the state's local indigent defender offices, which are now overseen by 41 independent boards around the state. [read post]
23 Jan 2012, 1:12 pm
And: The bill is for the county’s share of the indigent defense of Joshua Dupree Rounsoville, 24, and Stewart Calvert Brannon, 22, who are accused of the August 2008 fatal shooting of Maurice Smith, a 25-year-old maintenance worker for the Houston County Board of Education. [read post]
7 Oct 2009, 8:08 pm
Most state public defender boards have at least nine members, some as many as 24. [read post]
26 Jan 2019, 8:06 am
" The Legislature has required indigent defendants be appointed counsel in all cases where incarceration was possible since 1965 (seven years before a federal court case would have engendered the obligation). [read post]
7 Mar 2008, 8:17 am
Hill, who stepped down from the board so he could apply for the job, is a former deputy chief public defender under departing Chief Public Defender David E. [read post]
22 Jul 2011, 9:16 am
The Board of Public Defense intervened in the case and argued that since the statute did not require the State Public Defender to represent indigent defendants in misdemeanor appeals, the appellate division could not be appointed to represent Randolph. [read post]
1 May 2007, 1:23 am
It also eliminates the 41 local public defender boards and replaces them with a handful of regional boards to ensure mandatory standards and accountability, similar to the levee board reforms. [read post]
29 Aug 2008, 5:05 pm
Members of the Georgia Public Defender Standards Council board said further cuts would cripple the cash-strapped agency. [read post]
