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14 Aug 2010, 1:45 pm
The defendant claimed de minimis and she intended to use the bullet as a charm bracelet. [read post]
5 Aug 2010, 1:07 pm
Ciavarella[17] pulls no punches: With utter disdain for the rule of law, defendants Mark A. [read post]
27 Jul 2010, 9:07 am
And:The county's pitch for the state money has changed in other ways:To protect the public defender from meddling by Commissioners Court or the judiciary, an independent oversight board would be established for the office. [read post]
14 Jul 2010, 8:49 pm
For example, there is the issue of what to do in situations where clients have no real choice, as in the case of court-appointed lawyers for indigent criminal defendants. [read post]
13 Jul 2010, 7:37 am
Our office, specifically the Task Force on Indigent Defense, met with representatives from the Texas District & County Attorney Associations and the Coordinating Board to develop the criteria and plan for the administration of this loan forgiveness program. [read post]
11 Jun 2010, 9:24 am
It also asks for an independent board to oversee the office and limits on the case loads of its attorneys.Ellis accused local judges of circumventing the intent of his law by using a system in which each judge can decide his or her own system of providing for indigent defense. [read post]
10 Jun 2010, 8:24 am
Texas' Task Force for Indigent Defense had a full agenda for its Wednesday meeting.Besty Blaney files, "Texas panel approves funding for defenders office," for AP. [read post]
3 Jun 2010, 7:52 am
While all 15 county courts at law are expected to use a public defender office for mentally ill defendants in misdemeanor cases, only nine of the 22 district courts are on board to use it for appellate cases, and five for felony trial cases. [read post]
24 May 2010, 9:10 pm
DPIC notes that “the Ohio Parole Board recently recommended clemency for death row inmate Richard Nields, who was sentenced to death for killing his live-in girlfriend during an argument in 1997. [read post]
7 May 2010, 10:29 am
Mira Baylson L’08 will serve as the inaugural Langer, Grogan and Diver Fellow in Social Justice, working with the Defender Association of Philadelphia. [read post]
22 Apr 2010, 6:06 am
” This Orwellian named program requires payments of $200 to $1,000 a year for three years in order to reinstate the defendant’s driver’s license. [read post]
12 Apr 2010, 9:53 am
Weak protections for indigent defendants; hard-line, elected judges; and a mile-long scroll of 2,324 separate felony statutes have produced convicts by the busload. [read post]
7 Apr 2010, 5:25 am
Levin suggests the Legislative Budget Board "improve fiscal notes so that they state the full cost of the bill, including prosecutorial and judicial expenditures and the appointment of counsel for indigent defendants," noting that "the fiscal note is often zero for many enhancement bills when in fact there are likely to be costs. [read post]
24 Mar 2010, 12:08 pm
Roger Bedford (D-Russellville), among several other objectives, proposes to amend existing law by creating a state level 14-member Alabama Indigent Defense Commission, an office of Indigent Defense Services and 41 five-person indigent defense advisory boards in each of Alabama’s judicial circuits. [read post]
10 Mar 2010, 10:16 am
Like most Texas drug defendants, this fellow was no kingpin, but Texas taxpayers will foot the bill for his room, board and healthcare for many years to come.If legislators want to sustainably cut 5% from TDCJ's budget, among the quickest ways would be to ratchet drug penalties down one notch across the board, maxxing out at a second degree felony instead of first and making less than a gram possession a Class A misdemeanor. [read post]
7 Mar 2010, 3:23 am
This suggests that neither public defenders nor institutional defendants are competent to provide counsel to indigents. [read post]
3 Mar 2010, 4:11 am
Wolf, a Cook County Assistant Public Defender in Chicago and co-chair of NACDL’s Indigent Defense Committee. [read post]
15 Feb 2010, 12:42 pm
Recently, a collaborative effort was made to get a questionnaire answered by the candidates for Collin County District Attorney. [read post]
15 Feb 2010, 6:10 am
Do you believe our indigents are well served and fairly treated in our “Indigent Defense Plans”? [read post]
3 Feb 2010, 1:16 pm
Related posts are in the cost and indigent defense category indexes. [read post]
