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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 enable… [read post]
16 Sep 2011, 6:00 am
Nevada SB 123 Moves Office of State Public Defender from Department of Health and Human Services to the Office of the Governor. [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, 6:31 am
Creates trust fund for indigent defense dollars collected by clerks. [read post]
12 Sep 2011, 6:30 am
Requires commission establish public defense services standards, provide financial assistance to local governments and public defense providers for expenses incurred in providing legal services to the indigent, provide training to persons in the public defense profession and oversee the provision of public defense services in the state. [read post]
4 Sep 2011, 11:42 am
"To rein in the state’s fast-growing indigent defense fund, the court has drafted an amendment to its rules that would allow the cash-strapped state Administrative Office of the Courts to solicit bids and award contracts to lawyers or firms “to provide legal services to indigent persons for a fixed fee. [read post]
31 Aug 2011, 5:30 am
Since fiscal year 2004-05, the state’s indigent defense fund has grown from $19.9 million to $37.5 million. [read post]
24 Aug 2011, 10:25 am
In 2008, the Editor asked Isa Framer* : How can a criminal defense attorney overcome a Court's reluctance to spend public funds for a qualified interpreter? [read post]
22 Aug 2011, 8:29 am
A solo criminal defense practice that generates over $100,000 in billings. [read post]
16 Aug 2011, 12:01 pm
Department of Health and Human Services, unless the defendant is receiving certain financial assistance. [read post]
2 Aug 2011, 3:16 pm
” Previously, Easterly was an attorney for three-and-a-half years at the Office of the Appellate Defender, a nonprofit that defends indigent defendants in criminal cases. [read post]
3 Jul 2011, 7:50 pm
In that case, a licensed dentist was found to have aided and abetted the unlicensed practice of dentistry by a corporation he formed to own and operate dental offices. ? [read post]
1 Jul 2011, 11:44 am
Marshals Service, who claim the actual total was around $1,500. [read post]
27 Jun 2011, 7:00 am
The office for Equal Justice Works West—located in Oakland—reviews all applications from schools in California. [read post]
24 Jun 2011, 10:53 am
Answers may also assert affirmative defenses. [read post]
22 Jun 2011, 6:37 pm
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22 Jun 2011, 7:38 am
Courts and clerk’s office may offer some assistance in how to present evidence of indigence, but complicated legal questions inevitably arise: Must the defendant sell an asset, like a car, if the proceeds could allow him to pay his obligations? [read post]
Skewed priorities: Criminal courts raise plenty of revenue but Lege diverts it from indigent defense
15 Jun 2011, 11:48 am
Checking in at Carl Reynolds blog, CourtTex, we discover that, perhaps unsurprisingly, indigent defense funding and other legal services for the poor took a big hit in the 82nd Texas Legislature. [read post]
13 Jun 2011, 10:10 am
Here’s a random thought: if the allegation that Bajaj worked as a prostitute is true, then were her customers indirectly supporting indigent defense? [read post]
