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29 Jul 2009, 1:32 am
Texas, unlike other states with capital punishment, had not used the public defender's office to handle the habeus corpus writs for their capital offenders, but instead had hired outside attorneys who often missed deadlines or wrote "skeletal writs". [read post]
13 Feb 2007, 5:33 am
From The Indianapolis Star:The City-County Council unanimously approved a proposal to move the public defender's office out of the City-County Building and into a private office Downtown. [read post]
29 Sep 2011, 7:33 pm by Ken Shigley
And then, if there were an actual conflict, the public defender office could retain one of the co-defendants. [read post]
31 Dec 2006, 11:00 pm
"Martin was named the supervising attorney at the office by Robin Huseby, the executive director of the state Commission on Legal Counsel for Indigents.There are a total of three lawyers in public defender's office, including Martin and associate attorneys Thomas J. [read post]
18 May 2009, 8:04 am
This week's ruling has reversed that decision, saying that the Public Defender's Office could not violate defendants' right to representation. [read post]
12 Feb 2020, 6:22 am by Associated Press
Baltimore's public defenders have asked a judge to help them get a list of city police officers who the city's top prosecutor says have credibility issues. [read post]
27 Mar 2011, 10:30 am by Greensboro Law Blog
The Greensboro News & Record reports HERE that Fred Lind has become only the second person to lead the Guilford County Public Defender’s Office. [read post]
5 Mar 2012, 11:35 am by N. Peter Rasmussen
As argued by the defendant, Costa Rican law prohibited the method used by the SEC to serve the officer.The defendant asserted that Costa Rican Law 8687, which governs the domestic service of summons for actions in Costa Rican courts, only allows for personal service by an officer of the court or by a judicially authorized Costa Rican notary public. [read post]
12 Nov 2006, 7:26 pm
.'  The public defender's office lost most of its 40+ staff (which were completely overworked before Katrina) and barely has funding to pay for a few staff members. [read post]
25 Jun 2009, 1:16 pm
Holder said Justice components intend to include public defenders in meetings. [read post]
22 Jul 2008, 7:02 pm
Brad Lollar, the former chief public defender, was forced to resign last month because commissioners were unhappy with his management of the office. [read post]
22 Jun 2010, 7:46 am by Steve Hall
"Chief hired for state public defense office," is the title of Lise Olsen's report in today's Houston Chronicle.Texas has hired an experienced California attorney to run its first-ever public defense office for death row appeals known as state writs of habeas corpus — considered a death row defendant's best opportunity to raise final arguments about mistakes, unheard innocence claims or misconduct.Brad D. [read post]
26 Feb 2018, 7:01 am by Legal Profession Prof
The New Jersey Supreme Court has reprimanded a former public defender for sex with his client. [read post]
16 Jan 2020, 7:36 pm by David Oscar Markus
Daniel Epps and William Ortman make the pitch for a Defender General in this forthcoming piece:The United States needs a Defender General—a public official charged with representing the collective interests of criminal defendants before the Supreme Court of the United States. [read post]
18 Sep 2008, 2:49 pm
A Miami judge has ruled that the 11th circuit public defender's office can stop taking new third-degree felony cases. [read post]
14 Apr 2014, 2:31 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
They'd be better off creating a full-blown public defender office to handle part of the adult caseload. [read post]
9 Jul 2010, 2:03 pm by Terry Lenamon
California attorney Brad Levenson, a federal public defender, was revealed this week to be the new head of a brand new agency over in Texas: the Office of Capital Writs. [read post]
4 Mar 2019, 2:51 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
For example, the State Prosecuting Attorneys Office, the Capital Habeas Units of the Federal Public Defender Offices in Dallas and Austin, and the Regional Public Defender for Capital Cases in Lubbock are all able to pay their lawyers 40-50% more on average than the OCFW.Given this backdrop, it’s hardly surprisingly that the office struggles with high attrition rates. [read post]