Search for: "Law Offices Of Cook County Public Defender"
Results 481 - 499
of 499
Sort by Relevance
|
Sort by Date
1 Apr 2007, 10:02 am
If you’re a criminal defender looking for a great read, it sounds like you need look no further than Defending the Damned: Inside Chicago’s Cook County Public Defender’s Office by Kevin Davis: Davis takes you behind the scenes with an elite and fascinating group of public defenders who handle only one kind of case: murder. [read post]
1 Apr 2007, 12:20 am
A five-year search for a more meaningful answer resulted in Davis' book, "Defending the Damned: Inside Chicago's Cook County Public Defenders Office," which will be released in hardcover Tuesday by Simon & Schuster. [read post]
30 Mar 2007, 6:06 am
Kevin Davis, author of Defending the Damned: Inside Chicago's Cook County Public Defender's Office, is next week's guest on Monday Musings.The timing is perfect: Defending the Damned, which goes inside the Cook County PD Murder Task Force, goes on sale Tuesday (go to Amazon.com).Davis was kind enough to get me an advance copy, so I've decided to write a review: Defending the Damned: Inside… [read post]
25 Mar 2007, 4:00 pm
There is a public defender office for each J.D. and each G.A. [read post]
19 Feb 2007, 4:01 pm
In that case, Joyner portrayed the department as too characterized by lingering racial animosities—of the type evidenced last year in the racially charged argument at Blinco's Restaurant between a black cook and several Durham officers. [read post]
13 Feb 2007, 6:26 pm
From Cook County Public Defenders blog: Today, lawyers for AFSCME filed a Complaint for Injunctive Relief in Cook County Chancery Court, seeking to stop the planned staffing and pay cuts to the Office of the Public Defender. [read post]
1 Feb 2007, 5:05 pm
Local 3315 employed in the Office of the Public Defender:1. [read post]
20 Jan 2007, 6:05 am
Julian Brevard, who works in the child protection division of the Cook County State's Attorney's Office, has debts totaling about $90,000. [read post]
18 Jan 2007, 9:56 am
*The dedicated lawyers at the Cook County Public Defender's Office are fighting back against budget cuts that would mean a bunch of lawyers there losing their jobs, and their already high caseloads getting even higher. [read post]
17 Jan 2007, 7:26 am
County spokesman Steve Mayberry said the increase was mandated by state law. [read post]
28 Dec 2006, 2:51 pm
Currently, this is not something Cook County is exempt from providing its defendants...More from Soapblox Chicago (nice Haymarket graphic by the way):Cook County to Cut "Fat" From Public Defenders' Office By Possibly Spending More Money:Federal law mandates that legal representation be provided at the county's expense for indigent defendants, but private attorneys start twice as… [read post]
28 Dec 2006, 7:27 am
"Our 2007 budget is sound, pragmatic and will assure the high quality of service the public expects from the law office of the Cook County public defender," Burnette said Wednesday at the Criminal Courts Building. [read post]
27 Dec 2006, 1:27 pm
To keep layoffs at a minimum, the public defender's office will assign some workers four day work weeks, every employee must take a 10-day unpaid leave or furlough, the office's human resources and payroll functions will be consolidated into a central county bureau, and private law firms that do business with Cook County will be asked to handle some public defender cases for free. [read post]
22 Dec 2006, 2:16 pm
• A Cook County jury awards three men - Omar Aguirre, Edar Santos, and Robert Gayol, a total of $6.74 million, -- in their wrongful conviction suit against Chicago police officers who had coerced false confessions from the men. [read post]
10 Dec 2006, 8:05 am
Marion County, Indiana Chief Public Defender David Cook has a letter in today's Indianapolis Star in response to a recent article about his office's lack of space and how it has impacted his ability to hire new staff despite having the money to do so.The letter is titled "A Place To Perform Constitutional Function":For 11 years, I have proudly served Marion County as its chief public defender and have… [read post]
27 Nov 2006, 5:46 am
"It's the defining issue of this era" for prosecutors, said Bernie Murray, chief of criminal prosecutions for the Cook County state's attorney's office. [read post]
27 Nov 2006, 4:31 am
The average graduate of a public law school owed $51,056. [read post]
17 Nov 2006, 7:40 am
Cook and Bachly Cook v. [read post]
7 Nov 2006, 6:08 am
Burnette, Cook County Public Defender [read post]
