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20 Mar 2018, 2:11 pm by Emma Zack
The post Report: Indigent Defense Services in Mississippi Need Improvement appeared first on Innocence Project. [read post]
4 Aug 2020, 12:00 pm by John Rubin
The post Meet Mary Pollard, the new Director of the Office of Indigent Defense Services appeared first on North Carolina Criminal Law. [read post]
16 Feb 2009, 6:31 am by Gideon
If approved, the director of the new Office of Indigent Legal Services would determine which indigent defense cases will go to the LDO or PDO, and which ones will be contracted to outside attorneys. [read post]
21 Sep 2010, 6:08 am by Gritsforbreakfast
While I was away the Task Force on Indigent Defense came out with its quarterly newsletter in August. [read post]
14 May 2012, 12:54 pm by Steve Hall
That decentralized approach is still in place today, but last year, the state Legislature took its first steps toward overhauling the indigent defense system and bringing down its cost with the creation of a new office within the state Finance Department.Called the Office of Indigent Defense Services, it monitors the systems used by the different counties, reviews the bills that attorneys submit to the state and, somewhat… [read post]
30 May 2012, 12:18 pm by Steve Hall
Alabama’s new Office of Indigent Defense Services projects it will cut costs in hiring lawyers to represent the poor by $8 million this year and another $15 million the following year after imposing stricter oversight. [read post]
15 Sep 2011, 6:00 am by Bill Raftery
Kansas HB 2305 Reduces the number of members of the State Board of Indigents Defense Services from nine to seven. [read post]
9 Dec 2010, 9:16 am by Steve Hall
Related posts are in the indigent defense and Task Force on Indigent Defense category indexes. [read post]
27 Jan 2010, 8:47 am by Steve Hall
Related posts are in the indigent defense index. [read post]
2 Dec 2011, 8:57 am by Steve Hall
Earlier this year in Tennessee, the state’s Administrative Office of the Courts, which handles payment for indigent defense claims, proposed a rule change that would have allowed flat-fee contracting in the state. [read post]
Back in 2009, the Legislature formed the Maine Commission on Indigent Legal Services (MCILS), which began operating in July of 2010. [read post]
The Portland Press Herald reports today that only 186 attorneys are currently accepting court-appointed indigent defense cases from the Maine Commission on Indigent Legal Services (MCILS). [read post]
10 Apr 2018, 5:10 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
But that doesn't make this an unfunded mandate, any more than it's an unfunded mandate to require counties to pay for local prosecutors.The volume of indigent defense services required is largely a function of local priorities, so if the DA's office is still prosecuting lots of penny ante cases even after crime has declined for two decades, locals should foot the bill for those defense costs.The flip side of this "unfunded… [read post]
12 May 2010, 6:46 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Tomorrow will be Indigent Defense Day at the Texas capitol, it appears.The Senate Criminal Justice Committee will meet at 9 a.m. to discuss two interim charges:Interim Charge 3Review the performance of the Fair Defense Act and the Task Force on Indigent Defense. [read post]
7 Oct 2009, 8:01 pm
"Hundreds kept jailed for months pretrial," is Lise Olsen's latest Houston Chronicle report, examining the state of indigent defense in Harris County. [read post]
10 Jun 2010, 8:24 am by Steve Hall
  Related posts are in the indigent defense and  Task Force on Indigent Defense category indexes. [read post]
13 Sep 2011, 6:31 am by Bill Raftery
Creates trust fund for indigent defense dollars collected by clerks. [read post]
22 Jul 2008, 7:02 pm
The TFID's report gives the soundest basis I've seen for assessing the credence of claims that the PD office in Dallas provides poor service or costs more than private practitioners. [read post]