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2 Sep 2008, 6:49 am
The only difference will be that in both the short and long haul, their services will cost the county more.MORE: Unfair Park, which profiled Howard a couple of years ago, comments on recent public defender defections.See related Grits posts:State indigent defense task force: Dallas public defender caseloads too highTexas Lawyer: Dallas public defender lacked protection from political windsDallas public defender purge raises legal and policy questionsCost per case at Dallas… [read post]
1 Sep 2008, 4:03 pm
Walter Reaves asks ‘Who is Responsible for the Cost of Indigent Defense? [read post]
29 Aug 2008, 5:05 pm
"The quality of indigent defense in this state has already been harmed and degraded," council member Wyc Orr, a Gainesville lawyer, said. [read post]
25 Aug 2008, 12:28 pm
Here is a summary of the facts, taken from a judicial opinion and a news story: Five years ago, Glenda Spears, a criminal defense attorney, and Angela Kirkland, a probation officer, came up with a scheme to get judges to release probationers who paid them off. [read post]
14 Aug 2008, 12:43 am
The public defenders office in California is reserved for clients who are indigent and cannot afford to retain legal counsel. [read post]
29 Jul 2008, 6:20 pm
Indigent Defense Symposium in Houston: Considering Options for Ensuring Access to Quality Representation in Harris CountyHarris County Commissioners Court is looking into the feasibility of creating a public defender's office to provide indigent defense services in the nation's largest urban jurisdiction without one. [read post]
22 Jul 2008, 7:02 pm
The TFID's report gives the soundest basis I've seen for assessing the credence of claims that the PD office in Dallas provides poor service or costs more than private practitioners. [read post]
7 Jul 2008, 9:10 pm
They were somewhat successful, but an increase in the number of immigration and drug cases in federal court has them worried.If the federal government wants to hire experienced attorneys with a desire to make more money, they say, to fill open positions all they need do is look to the Pima County Attorney's Office and the county's two indigent-defense offices. [read post]
13 Jun 2008, 11:37 am
Over at the Dallas Observer's blog, Unfair Park, Robert Wilonsky links to this 2005 "feasibility analysis" (pdf) from the Texas Task Force on Indigent Defense regarding creation of a PD offices in Texas that specifically compares the savings Dallas County enjoys because of it's PD office to the cost of hiring private attorneys (see Table 2, p. 10):In 2005 according to these data, the attorney cost per felony case at the public defender… [read post]
20 May 2008, 9:02 am
Attorneys on the CJA Panel also must have demonstrated an interest in providing criminal defense services and a reputation for competent and vigorous representation. [read post]
15 May 2008, 6:02 am
The training web page created by the federal Office of Defender Services has many terrific federal defense resources, but it is sometimes dated and more can always be done during this (never-ending?) [read post]
13 Apr 2008, 2:26 pm
From the Columbian (Vancouver / Clark County):Report praises county's legal assistance for poor defendantsClark County received credit for hiring an indigent defense services coordinator and wasn't singled out for anything troubling in a statewide report on the quality of legal representation afforded poor criminal defendants...From the Kitsap Sun:Embodying GideonBrush off your high school government textbooks: who here remembers Clarence Earl Gideon? [read post]
8 Apr 2008, 7:50 am
Since then, public officials have had to address how to economically provide adequate defense services. [read post]
7 Apr 2008, 2:18 am
If that's his main concern, he should support this idea.In addition, other PDs in Texas have received supplemental startup funds from the Texas Task Force on Indigent Defense, which I'm certain would be chomping at the bit to finance a new PD office in Texas' largest county.Commissioners Garcia and El Franco broadly support a PD office, so with two of five commissioners likely to approve, and two more undecided or undeclared, this suggestion… [read post]
2 Apr 2008, 8:58 am
http://www.aclu.org/affiliates The Southern Center for Human Rights’ indigent defense information is at http://www.schr.org/reports/index.htm. [read post]
2 Apr 2008, 8:50 am
[ii] The federal government established the Legal Services Corporation (LSC) to fund legal aid offices that provide non-criminal legal services for indigent people throughout the country. [read post]
31 Mar 2008, 8:21 am
The West Texas Regional Public Defender for Capital Cases office is funded by a $3 million grant from the Texas Taskforce for Indigent Defense. [read post]
25 Mar 2008, 9:34 am
"Woody" Leverett Jr. and Ray Fivecoat.And:The executive director of the public defender's office, Jack Stoffregen, said Monday that his Texas Task Force on Indigent Defense-funded organization was first constituted only to handle cases that developed after Jan. 1. [read post]
25 Feb 2008, 12:08 pm
I alone among my defense bar colleagues am a Republican and have occasionally toyed with the idea of running for higher office. [read post]
20 Feb 2008, 8:26 am
Levin also suggested that county commissioners could "designate misdemeanors that are non-jailable in that county, which also eliminates indigent defense costs. [read post]
