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20 Dec 2011, 8:45 am
Over the next three years I handled a lot of indigent criminal defense cases under the old system of random appointment. [read post]
8 Nov 2011, 6:44 am
Requires certain defendants to pay court costs for deposit in the fund. [read post]
14 Oct 2011, 7:49 am
There were lapses in full-time staffing and positions on the board leading to patient oversight issues. [read post]
29 Sep 2011, 7:33 pm
Then, it would need the approval of the bar’s Board of Governors, which will convene on Oct. 29 at Jekyll Island, and finally the state Supreme Court before going into effect. [read post]
28 Sep 2011, 6:03 am
If not, Los Angeles may just be exporting its indigent, like New York, which has been reviving transportation to send people back where they came from, or France, which has been deporting the Romany, except that LA’s deportation may be unintentional. [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]
16 Sep 2011, 6:00 am
Nevada AB 49 Establishes the Fund for Legal Defense of Indigent Persons and authorizes certain counties to apply to the Board of Trustees of the Fund for reimbursement of certain extraordinary costs of providing public defender services. [read post]
15 Sep 2011, 3:33 pm
Those receiving capital sentences are also typically poor and indigent — about 90 percent of the criminal defendants sentenced to death in the past thirty-five years could not afford to hire their own lawyers. [read post]
15 Sep 2011, 6:00 am
Kansas HB 2305 Reduces the number of members of the State Board of Indigents Defense Services from nine to seven. [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]
13 Sep 2011, 8:37 am
"When a defendant’s race is introduced as a factor in guilt or sentencing – even inadvertently – the integrity of the case is compromised," said Mark MacDougall, a pro bono lawyer at Akin Gump, who often works with indigent defendants in death penalty cases. [read post]
13 Sep 2011, 6:31 am
Clarifies that the District Court, a Circuit Court, and the Court of Special Appeals are prohibited from appointing an attorney through OPD to represent an indigent individual if (1) there is a conflict in legal representation in a matter involving multiple defendants and one of the defendants is being represented by or through OPD; or (2) OPD declines to provide representation to an indigent individual entitled to representation. [read post]
1 Sep 2011, 12:50 pm
To negative such a plea may be to deny justice altogether in certain cases, especially in a land of illiteracy and indigence and judicial processes of a sophisticated nature. [read post]
7 Aug 2011, 7:28 pm
Ostensibly, the law applied only to Level 3 sex offenders, which are considered the most likely to reoffend, according to the Massachusetts Sex Offender Registry Board (“SORB. [read post]
7 Aug 2011, 7:28 pm
Ostensibly, the law applied only to Level 3 sex offenders, which are considered the most likely to reoffend, according to the Massachusetts Sex Offender Registry Board (“SORB.”) [read post]
1 Aug 2011, 7:45 am
SB 902 Permits retired justices or judges to appear as counsel in cases in courts of the Commonwealth if (i) the retired justice or judge has been retired for at least two years and is not authorized for temporary recall by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, (ii) the retired justice or judge is appearing as counsel, pro bono, for an indigent person in a civil matter, (iii) such civil matter is assigned or referred to the retired justice or judge by a nonprofit legal aid program… [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]
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]
30 Jun 2011, 12:59 pm
Interpreters have always been provided in criminal cases and in civil cases in which litigants were indigent. [read post]
25 Jun 2011, 10:25 am
A near encounter with forfeiture madness in the Pelican State [The Newspaper]: Under the legislation, impounded vehicles [of third-conviction litterers] would be sold at auction with the revenue split 10 percent to the towing company, 30 percent to the local police or investigative agency, 10 percent to the indigent defender board, 20 percent to the prosecutor and 30 percent to the state. [read post]
