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13 Mar 2015, 6:48 am by Jeff Welty
First, the Administrative Office of the Courts has a new director. [read post]
5 Mar 2015, 5:06 am by Jamison Koehler
Many of these lawyers are first-rate:  smart, committed and creative in their defense of the city’s indigent. [read post]
20 Feb 2015, 6:19 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Texas Supreme Court Chief Justice Nathan Hecht this week called on the Legislature to decriminalize truancy and expand state funding for legal aid and indigent defense. [read post]
18 Feb 2015, 4:16 pm by Hannah Kiddoo
Both the Texas Judicial Council and the Texas Indigent Defense Commission, he said, have called for investments from the state for indigent criminal defense, as well as support for expanding public defenders’ offices and assigned counsel systems. [read post]
3 Feb 2015, 4:57 am by SHG
For all the facile support for indigent defense, this is the time when criminal defense lawyers and those who support Gideon to stand up in support of Bronx Defenders and Robin Steinberg. [read post]
22 Jan 2015, 12:53 pm by Matthew L.M. Fletcher
Join the National American Indian Court Judges Association and the American Indian Law Center for the second in a series of four upcoming webinars on Emerging Practices in Civil Legal Assistance and Criminal Indigent Defense. [read post]
24 Dec 2014, 10:22 am by Victoria Sweet
Join the National American Indian Court Judges Association and the American Indian Law Center for the first in a series of four upcoming webinars on Emerging Practices in Civil Legal Assistance and Criminal Indigent Defense. [read post]
13 Dec 2014, 6:31 pm by Brian Shiffrin
  The decision, which can be found here - http://www.nycourts.gov/reporter/3dseries/2014/2014_24363.htm - though focusing largely on New York law, addressed principles applicable to indigent defense throughout the country. [read post]
4 Dec 2014, 11:28 am by Shea Denning
North Carolina’s Office of Indigent Defense Services has studied whether decriminalizing certain offenses might be an appropriate way to reduce the cost to the state of providing appointed counsel. [read post]
20 Nov 2014, 4:45 pm by Nursing Home Law Center LLC
Affirmative defense – A defense raised in a responsive pleading (answer) relating a new matter as a defense to the complaint; affirmative defenses might include contributory negligence or estopped in civil actions; in criminal cases insanity, duress, or self-defense might be used. [read post]
14 Nov 2014, 5:42 am by John Elwood
Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, 13-10400, is the high-profile one, asking whether Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 4(m) gives a district court the discretion to extend the time for service of process absent a showing of good cause. [read post]
6 Nov 2014, 10:59 am by John Elwood
It may be the Justices are figuring out how to handle the case in light of the closely related petitions in KBR Services, Inc. v. [read post]
4 Nov 2014, 1:30 pm by Maureen Johnston
Wainwright and his constitutional right to be provided with the “basic tools” for an adequate defense, contrary to Ake v. [read post]
29 Oct 2014, 5:21 am by SHG
It gives crucial oversight power to the independent Office of Indigent Legal Services, which was created in 2010 but has been severely underfunded ever since. [read post]
28 Oct 2014, 1:30 pm by Maureen Johnston
Wainwright and his constitutional right to be provided with the “basic tools” for an adequate defense, contrary to Ake v. [read post]