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17 Oct 2018, 6:12 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
DPS won't give the prison agency permission to include fingerprints for "pen packets" prosecutors prepare when a defendant is sent to prison.'The Love Story that Upended the Texas Prison System'Awesome long form historical perspective on Texas' prison litigation in the 1970-80s from Ethan Watters at Texas Monthly, told through the lens of a romance.Studying state jail feloniesThe Texas Criminal Justice Coalition just issued a new report on state-jail felonies… [read post]
22 Oct 2009, 4:02 pm by Jon Sands
Finally, given the indigency of the defendant, "nominal" restitution payments of $10,000/month was too high.Congratulations to AFPD Jim Locklin of the FPD Office of the C.D. [read post]
3 Oct 2019, 1:20 pm by Emily Coward
The program, called the NC Racial Equity Network (NC REN), began with a competitive application process open to all North Carolina indigent defenders. [read post]
20 Sep 2011, 2:55 pm
The recommendations in the Report of the Advisory Committee on Wrongful Convictions include:- Legislation requiring improvements to eyewitness identification procedures; - Legislation requiring the electronic recording of interrogations for a limited number of crimes; - Legislation to enhance the reliability of informant testimony; - Amending the existing post-conviction DNA testing statute to enable access to deserving defendants, and to better utilize DNA database comparisons in order to… [read post]
11 Feb 2008, 9:20 am
Cherry, Justice of the Nevada Supreme Court, Concerning the Order of the Nevada Supreme Court In the Matter of the Review of Issues Concerning Representation of Indigent Defendants in Criminal and Juvenile Delinquency Cases Issued on January 4, 2008, ADKT No. 411 (www.nvsupremecourt.us/documents/orders/ADKT411Order.pdf) IX Public Comment X Discussion of potential topics for future meetings XI. [read post]
1 Apr 2009, 9:43 pm
  What about the availability of competent investigators for indigent defenders? [read post]
20 Feb 2015, 7:42 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Those two changes in 2014 would have avoided more than 90,000 Class B arrests (source: add total new cases for marijuana possession and Class B DWLI from here and here), respectively, reducing counties' policing, jail and indigent defense costs by more than enough to offset the new, additional defendants who would be shifted to county purview from the state jail felony category. [read post]
23 Nov 2005, 12:46 am
Attorney Kevin Danielson of Tulsa argued the context of the law shows it applies only to proceedings in federal court, not state clemency hearings.He cited a 1994 decision by the appellate judges that said "federal courts should not be required as a routine matter to fulfill the state's obligation to provide an adequate and effective" appeal for indigent criminal defendants. [read post]
2 Nov 2010, 4:22 am by SHG
And the last thing Brown needs is a judge who isn't on board with the program, leading to the action against Justice Blumenfeld. [read post]
7 Sep 2016, 10:57 am by John Floyd
  “It simply cannot be that any defendant arrested for any crime must be immediately released on the bare assertion of indigence,” these money-grubbers told the 11th Circuit. [read post]
14 May 2011, 3:33 pm by Steve Kalar
(Particularly true for our indigent clients, where the likelihood of obtaining restitution is often nil.) [read post]
21 May 2012, 8:13 am by royblack
The deep south was not ready to accept public defense for indigent, mainly black defendants, not unlike how it refused to accept Brown v School Board. [read post]
8 Jan 2011, 4:16 pm
She has served as Chair of the ABA Standing Committee on Lawyers' Public Service Responsibility, its Standing Committee on Legal Aid and Indigent Defendants, and its national Law Firm Pro Bono Project. [read post]
2 Apr 2013, 12:17 pm by Stephen Bilkis
As an attorney on the panel, the accused was assigned to represent indigent clients in the Bronx County Family Court. [read post]
4 Jan 2017, 4:12 am by SHG
As if affording indigent defendants their constitutional right to counsel shouldn’t cost anything. [read post]
25 Jun 2018, 9:00 am by Adam Faderewski
Underwood practiced law from his home in Comstock and gained repute for cases involving the Fourth Amendment and establishing the right of an indigent defendant to expert assistance. [read post]
15 Feb 2011, 1:13 pm by Matt Brown
Years ago, indigent defense contract work was a key component in our business model. [read post]
8 Mar 2013, 4:53 am by Gritsforbreakfast
They could also charge fees to defendants not to exceed $1,000, but many will be indigent and anyway that's likely not enough by itself to cover the costs. [read post]
19 Jan 2024, 3:58 am by Matthew L.M. Fletcher
• Protect the rights of defendants described in the Tribal Law and Order Act of 2010, by providing: (1) Effective assistance of counsel for defendants; (2) Free, appointed, licensed attorneys for indigent defendants; (3) Law-trained Tribal judges who are also licensed to practice law; • Publicly available Tribal criminal laws and rules; • Recorded criminal proceedings. [read post]