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7 Sep 2016, 10:57 am by John Floyd
  “It simply cannot be that any defendant arrested for any crime must be immediately released on the bare assertion of indigence,” these money-grubbers told the 11th Circuit. [read post]
3 Apr 2016, 3:21 pm by Consuella Pachico
The Louisiana Public Defender Board (LPDB) is faced with a possible cut of nearly 62 percent of a budget that is already stretchedThe post Representation of Indigent Defendants Requires Adequate Funding appeared first on Legal Reader. [read post]
8 Mar 2016, 8:41 am by Gritsforbreakfast
The charge directed them to:Study the constitutional requirements and local practices for the appointment of counsel to indigent defendants and the operation of innocence projects at the state’s six public law schools. [read post]
23 Feb 2016, 7:28 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Forty-three states even charge fees for an indigent’s “free” public defender. [read post]
28 Jan 2016, 7:45 am by Gritsforbreakfast
”And here are a few items from Grits' notes:The Legislative Budget Board told the committee the program raised $151.2 million in FY 2015. [read post]
21 Jan 2016, 4:00 am by Administrator
Each Thursday we present a significant excerpt, usually from a recently published book or journal article. [read post]
17 Dec 2015, 2:59 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
The law requires State Counsel for Offenders, a division of the Board of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, to represent indigent persons in civil commitment proceedings. [read post]
14 Dec 2015, 8:26 am by Skier & Associates
Skier& Associates, has been selected to be a member of the board of Directors for the Federal Public Defender Organization serving the Middle Judicial District of Alabama. [read post]
14 Dec 2015, 8:26 am by Skier & Associates
Skier & Associates, has been selected to be a member of the board of Directors for the Federal Public Defender Organization serving the Middle Judicial District of Alabama. [read post]
6 Dec 2015, 6:25 am by Gritsforbreakfast
"From TDCJ, "Report to Governor and Legislative Budget Board on the Monitoring of Community Supervision Diversion Funds," Dec. 1, 2015. [read post]
26 Oct 2015, 2:06 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
That's what happened today.DNA mixture notification snafuThis afternoon, IPOT's legal director Mike Ware attended a Forensic Science Commission work group discussing notification and indigent defense challenges related to defendants convicted based on erroneous DNA mixture protocols. [read post]
9 Sep 2015, 2:02 pm by Bill Otis
 They may be significantly underpaid.It's often said that indigent defendants take it in the shins, because privately retained counsel are better. [read post]
17 Aug 2015, 5:17 am by David Markus
  The story focused on low-level indigent defendants, but it's really a huge problem in all cases as judges have become more and more stingy with bonds, even for first-time non-violent offenders. [read post]
7 May 2015, 9:39 pm by Stephen Bilkis
Nassau County adopted a plan of representation utilizing the Legal Aid Society rather than a public defender, and thereafter contracted with the Legal Aid Society of Nassau County to represent indigents charged with crime. [read post]
27 Apr 2015, 2:54 pm by Daniel Cappetta
The Court ordered that if an offender seeking parole is indigent, the public defender’s office – the Committee for Public Counsel Services – should provide representation. [read post]
A rash of state and local governments have responded to budget squeezes by forcing the costs of courts and jails onto defendants, charging them for services like room and board in jail, medical care, and even the use of a public defender. [read post]
20 Feb 2015, 7:42 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Those two changes in 2014 would have avoided more than 90,000 Class B arrests (source: add total new cases for marijuana possession and Class B DWLI from here and here), respectively, reducing counties' policing, jail and indigent defense costs by more than enough to offset the new, additional defendants who would be shifted to county purview from the state jail felony category. [read post]