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25 May 2007, 5:02 am
Aaron Peña's leadership of the Texas House Criminal Jurisprudence Committee, but he can still help pass an important bill that Texas really needs - HB 1267, which would improve frequently dismal legal representation for indigent capital defendants.The original House bill was pretty non-descript, requiring only that attorneys who provide indigent defense services be paid more promptly. [read post]
20 Jul 2022, 1:45 pm
On today’s episode, Sarah Olson, the Forensic Resource Counsel for the Office of Indigent Defense Services, sits down with Jake to discuss the proper interpretation of drug lab results, how to use an SBI analyst from the crime lab to your advantage, and the free resources available to North Carolina DWI defense lawyers dealing with blood results. [read post]
24 Jun 2010, 1:07 pm
The ability for indigent defenders to find a state-provided defense, with the time and money to offer a thorough representation, has become increasingly rare. [read post]
9 May 2006, 3:00 am
(Instead, we conduct social service assesments in the intake office, where participants report post-sentencing. [read post]
5 May 2016, 10:18 am
Paying for indigent defense is not a popular subject for most of our citizens, but it is a constitutional requirement to provide effective representation. [read post]
7 Mar 2010, 3:23 am
A strong and independent defense bar is an integral component of New York’s delivery of indigent defense services. [read post]
22 Dec 2009, 12:25 pm
As counties across the state re-examine their indigent defense systems, this small office offers insight into a critical question: What's the most cost-effective way to determine indigence? [read post]
2 Jul 2018, 11:05 am
” The failure of public defense systems to provide adequate representation to indigent defendants is often caused by severe underfunding and has resulted in the chronic appointment of “incompetent or inexperienced” counsel; delays in the appointment of counsel and discontinuity of attorney representation; a lack of training and oversight for counsel representing indigent defendants; excessive public defender caseloads and understaffing of public defender… [read post]
25 Mar 2013, 6:21 am
How are publicly-funded criminal defense services delivered in the U.S.? [read post]
25 Mar 2013, 6:21 am
How are publicly-funded criminal defense services delivered in the U.S.? [read post]
14 Oct 2008, 8:34 pm
Two of those honored play leading roles in indigent criminal defense work in the state, Maruie Levin, Senior Staff Attorney at Texas Defender Service, and; Andrea Marsh, Executive Director of Texas Fair Defense Project. [read post]
4 Aug 2016, 3:45 am
Second, in the scheme of allocating scarce resources, indigent defense funding sucks up fund that elected officials can’t use for themselves, their offices, their staff, their projects, their needs and desires. [read post]
28 Nov 2010, 12:08 am
It shouldn't be news to anyone that there's a crisis in indigent defense. [read post]
13 Jun 2008, 11:37 am
Over at the Dallas Observer's blog, Unfair Park, Robert Wilonsky links to this 2005 "feasibility analysis" (pdf) from the Texas Task Force on Indigent Defense regarding creation of a PD offices in Texas that specifically compares the savings Dallas County enjoys because of it's PD office to the cost of hiring private attorneys (see Table 2, p. 10):In 2005 according to these data, the attorney cost per felony case at the public defender… [read post]
21 Feb 2007, 5:44 am
This isn't the only way - or necessarily the best way, in our view - to solve the riddle of indigent defense. [read post]
29 Jul 2008, 6:20 pm
Indigent Defense Symposium in Houston: Considering Options for Ensuring Access to Quality Representation in Harris CountyHarris County Commissioners Court is looking into the feasibility of creating a public defender's office to provide indigent defense services in the nation's largest urban jurisdiction without one. [read post]
21 Nov 2008, 11:30 am
If the Clinton administration could spend liberally to fund state and local law enforcement officers, the Obama administration can spend liberally to help states pay for indigent defense. [read post]
28 Nov 2010, 12:08 am
It shouldn't be news to anyone that there's a crisis in indigent defense. [read post]
15 Jan 2019, 3:00 pm
The Office of Indigent Defense Services and the Indigent Defense Education team here at the SOG identified a need to provide more training on high-level felony defense, and this training was the brainchild of our effort to meet that need. [read post]
17 Aug 2023, 4:05 pm
The chapter describes several models of service delivery, including public defender offices, contracts for services, and appointments in individual cases. [read post]
