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7 Jul 2008, 6:53 pm
That very day Brad Lollar, chief of the Dallas County Public Defender's Office â€â [read post]
7 Jul 2008, 2:01 pm
Texas Lawyer published a detailed adumbration of the imbroglio surrounding allegedly politicized firings at the Dallas Public Defender's Office beginning with the chief, Brad Lollar. [read post]
3 Jul 2008, 7:03 am
As emergency options go, this idea makes more sense than firing lawyers in the public defender office, but not by much.Increasingly counties rely on fine revenue (and using jails to extract it) in order to pay for basic services. [read post]
1 Jul 2008, 8:50 am
Several readers emailed recently to say the axe continues to fall around the Dallas Public Defender's office in the wake of top PD Brad Lollar's forced resignation. [read post]
16 Jun 2008, 3:21 pm
In a recent letter to the Express-News, he explained his support for enhancing public defender offices to prevent innocent people from being convicted. [read post]
13 Jun 2008, 11:37 am
John Wiley Price: Move to slash public defender budget couldn't come at worse timeDallas public defender budget saves county money compared to neighbors [read post]
13 Jun 2008, 8:11 am
In the wake of Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price's high-profile putsch at the county's public defender office, many in Big D are taking seriously Price's threat to fire large numbers of lawyers, slash the PD office budget, or even eliminate it entirely.His timing couldn't be worse.Sometime soon the US Supreme Court will issue its opinion in Rothgery v. [read post]
12 Jun 2008, 6:44 am
In Tarrant, the increase was a whopping 87% over that period.Dallas never absorbed those extra costs because the public defender office buffered county taxpayers from the blow. [read post]
10 Jun 2008, 5:52 pm
Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price took some cheap shots at head public defender Brad Lollar as the latter man resigned today. [read post]
4 Jun 2008, 8:14 am
You have to wonder what incentives Dallas judges act on when they fail to use the public defender office? [read post]
17 May 2008, 5:30 pm
Randall County Sheriff's Office (Higgins II), No. 06-0917 (Tex. [read post]
8 May 2008, 9:24 am
Michael Rodriguez has been set for lethal injection Aug. 14, Kim Schaefer, a Dallas County assistant district attorney who handles capital cases, said Wednesday. [read post]
5 May 2008, 7:22 am
Reported the Dallas News ("Dallas officer convicted in fake drug scandal begins prison term," May 5): A Dallas police officer convicted in what became known as the fake drug scandal turned himself in Monday morning to the Dallas County Jail to begin serving his sentence, the Dallas County District Attorney's office said. [read post]
21 Apr 2008, 8:30 am
In Dallas County, public defenders handle child welfare and juvenile offender cases, but judges there still appoint private attorneys for some work. [read post]
10 Apr 2008, 9:16 am
Harris County (Houston) Commissioners have instructed the county's budget officer to examine public defender offices with the possibility of creating one for the county. [read post]
7 Apr 2008, 2:18 am
For example, Dallas County has a PD office (which supplements private appointments), but Tarrant County does not. [read post]
5 Apr 2008, 10:07 pm
"I think the police department and the DA's office select people to prosecute who have the least ability to defend themselves," says Chatham, who says he took the case on principle. [read post]
21 Mar 2008, 9:14 am
Blame the 22-year saga on past gamesmanship in the Dallas County district attorney's office, which required a righteous fight to root it out. [read post]