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3 Apr 2007, 5:26 am
From The Dallas Morning News (may require registration):Dallas County formed the state's first public defender's office more than two decades ago to offer inexpensive and efficient representation for the poor. [read post]
13 Feb 2007, 5:23 am
David Cook, the county's chief public defender, stopped hiring new attorneys in December because there was no space in his crowded office. [read post]
13 Mar 2008, 2:17 am
Patrick McCann, president of the Harris County Criminal Lawyers Association, the county's largest defense bar, recently took a poll and the group's attorneys came out 2-to-1 in support of some kind of public defender office. [read post]
17 May 2012, 8:49 am
Howard Wasserman (FIU) has published Rejecting Sovereign Immunity in Public Law Litigation in Fordham's Res Gestae. [read post]
5 Feb 2007, 5:43 am
Applicants will be able to meet with representatives from Florida's public defender offices and judicial circuits in one location for positions statewide.All qualified, interested persons should submit a cover letter and resume by noon on Monday, February 26, 2007 to the circuits of their choice. [read post]
16 Oct 2007, 7:33 am
That's the headline in this morning's Amarillo Globe-News. [read post]
17 Aug 2007, 10:54 am
Plough ordered a Portage County Sheriff's deputy to remove Jones from his courtroom in front of his client, spectators and courthouse employees...Via John Wesley Hall Jr.s' Law of Criminal Defense. [read post]
5 Feb 2017, 2:52 pm
From Nashville Scene: Facing an Unmanageable Workload, the Public Defender’s Office is Now Limiting the Cases it Takes With his attorneys, and the public defender’s office in general, now tied up in the case, attorneys from Bass, Berry & Sims... [read post]
10 Jun 2008, 5:52 pm
According to the Dallas News, "The Public Defender's Office is not a retirement home for lawyers who don't want to work," Mr. [read post]
8 Mar 2007, 5:19 am
From The Kingman (Arizona) Daily Miner:There's no place like home, and now the Mohave County Public Defender's Office has found its way out of Oz.The department has moved next door from its old 3,500-square-foot building to the 10,000-square-foot former Mohave County Department of Public Health building.The building underwent more than $850,000 in renovations to accommodate its new occupants after the Department of… [read post]
6 Apr 2007, 5:21 am
From The Riverside County (California) Press-Enterprise (may require registration):Riverside County's top officials and the grand jury are looking into complaints that lawyers are leaving the public defender's office because of low morale and poor management. [read post]
3 Oct 2009, 10:15 am
LEXIS 645 (September 29, 2009).* The CI's statements and the officers' observations gave nexus between defendant's drug dealing and his premises to justify a search of the premises. [read post]
22 Nov 2006, 8:23 am
From The Jackson Hole (Wyoming) Star Tribune:GILLETTE -- The state public defender's office is investigating the Campbell County public defender's office for unspecified personnel matters, Terry Rogers, the deputy state public defender, said Tuesday.Because the matter is a personnel issue, Rogers would not provide many specifics about the investigation, including how many people were… [read post]
25 Apr 2007, 4:18 am
Because reviewers of the movie, starring Anthony Hopkins and Ryan Gosling, describe Gosling's character as a public defender prosecuting Hopkins' character. [read post]
6 Feb 2007, 5:34 am
An employee of the Clark County Public Defender's Office since 1978 and director since the early 1990s, Merrell said he never would have guessed after graduating from the University of Toledo's law school that he would choose this career path. [read post]
5 Jul 2012, 5:00 pm
Additional Resources Birmingham police officer arrested for public intoxication, The Birmingham News, July 3, 2012. [read post]
17 May 2007, 5:34 am
From The Fort Lauderdale (Florida) Sun-Sentinel:Fort Lauderdale -- The city is suing Public Defender Howard Finkelstein for his decision to stop representing the poor in cases in which they're charged only with municipal code violations.Fort Lauderdale officials want a judge to force the Public Defender's Office to continue such representation.read the entire article...... [read post]
7 May 2007, 7:55 pm
From The Atlanta Journal-Constitution:Faced with a funding shortfall, the state's public defender agency has eliminated 41 full-time jobs â€â [read post]
28 Mar 2007, 12:13 am
A review by The National Law Journalshows that many public defender's offices across the country are strainedbeyond capacity or tipping into crisis.Inadequate funding has led to constant turnover, staff reductions andspiraling caseloads.Litigation over poorly funded public defender systems are pending in Michiganand Louisiana.The problem has become so acute that in at least one jurisdiction, officialstoyed with the idea of trimming… [read post]
20 Feb 2012, 7:37 am
I am not an expert in criminal law ethics, but based upon usual principles (it's almost impossible for a single lawyer to represent multiple defendants in a criminal action and conflicts are imputed), it would seem like the PD office would be disqualified. [read post]
