Search for: "Indigent Defendant Board"
Results 141 - 160
of 355
Sorted by Relevance
|
Sort by Date
11 Oct 2018, 1:17 pm
At the time of his death, Sam was an Assistant Public Defender in Palm Beach, Florida and was a Board member of the Palm Beach Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (PBACDL). [read post]
5 Apr 2016, 10:06 am
Leahy Director NYS Office of Indigent Legal Services 80 S. [read post]
7 Jul 2008, 9:10 pm
From the Arizona Daily Star:Attorney exodus irks public service officialsTwo years ago, Pima County's top prosecutor and top public defenders persuaded the Board of Supervisors to increase their attorneys' salaries by 16 percent to stop a mass exodus. [read post]
19 Jan 2013, 7:14 am
For one, it makes financial sense, since jail time soaks up tax dollars and courts are obligated to furnish an attorney to indigent defendants charged with Class B misdemeanors.In 2007, lawmakers tried to cut the number of drug-possession and other nonviolent defendants in county jails by dropping the requirement that they be arrested and held for trial. [read post]
21 Mar 2018, 6:05 pm
Davis, a case about the standard that an indigent prisoner must meet in order to receive funding in support of a habeas petition for “investigative, expert, or other services [that] are reasonably necessary for the representation of the defendant, whether in connection with issues relating to guilt or the sentence. [read post]
8 Oct 2014, 9:30 pm
Yet, unlike defendants in criminal proceedings, aliens in these legal proceedings are not guaranteed access to free legal representation. [read post]
8 Oct 2014, 9:30 pm
Yet, unlike defendants in criminal proceedings, aliens in these legal proceedings are not guaranteed access to free legal representation. [read post]
28 Dec 2010, 11:31 am
In many ways, Kentucky appears to be following the guidance of the National Transportation Safety Board to combat hard-core drunken driving, which is urging states to enact stronger legislation to adopt strong countermeasures to stop impaired driving. [read post]
21 May 2020, 9:48 am
His legal work had been in indigent defendants’ rights, children’s rights, bail reform, immigrant rights, civil rights, and death penalty and wrongful conviction. [read post]
25 Aug 2010, 5:24 pm
Leah Pinney and I attended the Task Force on Indigent Defense Board Meeting today, where we were reminded of the value of grace and perseverance in seeking justice. [read post]
10 Jan 2013, 5:35 am
An arrest for the tiniest amount of marijuana requires counties to pay for indigent defendants' lawyers, while an arrest for any amount of cocaine, meth or heroin, for example, brings an automatic felony charge. [read post]
25 Jun 2011, 10:25 am
A near encounter with forfeiture madness in the Pelican State [The Newspaper]: Under the legislation, impounded vehicles [of third-conviction litterers] would be sold at auction with the revenue split 10 percent to the towing company, 30 percent to the local police or investigative agency, 10 percent to the indigent defender board, 20 percent to the prosecutor and 30 percent to the state. [read post]
27 Dec 2006, 1:27 pm
"Rumors of pink slips, layoffs across the board to the extent we thought necessary before will not come to fruition," said Edwin Burnette, Cook County public defender. [read post]
27 Apr 2015, 2:54 pm
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]
10 Nov 2010, 5:08 am
And in the end most sentences are probated, misdemeanor probation caseloads become bloated, fines and fees collected don't cover costs, particularly for indigent defendants, and the whole process comes to seem rather pointless all the way around.Ratcheting down the penalty to a Class C for low-level pot possession would save money on jail time, indigent defense, and keep more officers on the street to focus on more significant crimes. [read post]
11 Jan 2011, 9:00 pm
For years, she worked as a full-time public defender lawyer, including heading federal defender offices, and now continues doing such critical indigent defense work as the defense of Jared Loughner who no matter how loathed does not change my total opposition to capital punishment. [read post]
3 Feb 2010, 1:16 pm
Related posts are in the cost and indigent defense category indexes. [read post]
22 Oct 2014, 1:03 pm
There are no fee increases contemplated for matters filed with the County Boards of Taxation. [read post]
23 Jun 2018, 3:39 pm
Given that Austin PD's DNA lab has already been shut down because they were performing the tests wrong, it's not hard to imagine some cases aren't aggressively pursued when they should be.Bexar should reject calls for managed-assigned-counselThe SA Express News editorial board argued that Bexar County needs to a) spend more on indigent defense but also b) spend more on oversight to make sure it's getting quality defense for the money it's spending. [read post]
22 Apr 2017, 5:33 am
Sitting on volunteer boards is work for the public good. [read post]
