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28 Aug 2013, 11:06 am by Gritsforbreakfast
The report criticized DPS for two significant errors: Failing to run the contract by the Legislative Budget Board before approval and failure to notify competing bidders of changes to the RFP. [read post]
22 Jul 2013, 12:06 pm by David Oscar Markus
It has forced the layoffs of many experienced lawyers who have devoted their professional careers to the underappreciated and underpaid work of representing indigent federal defendants. [read post]
3 Jul 2013, 6:00 am by Tamar Birckhead
  While the numbers show that children of color are disproportionately represented in both judicial districts, they also reveal that the common denominator across the board is socioeconomic status, not race or ethnicity. [read post]
26 Jun 2013, 3:30 am by David Oscar Markus
The court also ignored defendant’s twiceraisedRule 16 objection and made a questionable rulingregarding defendant’s Speedy Trial Act claim. [read post]
15 Apr 2013, 6:52 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Grits has argued that these theft categories should be automatically adjusted for inflation.HB 2266 by Larson would allow courts to waive Class C fines for children the same way they do for indigents when alternative means of settling the fine or costs would "impose an undue hardship on the defendant." [read post]
12 Apr 2013, 12:11 pm by David Oscar Markus
After graduation, he worked briefly as a teacher and then attended the University of Miami Law School, from which he received his J.D. in 1978.After law school, Judge Moreno was in private practice, and served indigent clients while employed by the Federal Public Defender’s Office in Miami. [read post]
7 Apr 2013, 1:32 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
Allen Fletcher would require that members of the Public Safety commission to maintain secret-level federal security clearance.HB 375 by Ryan Guillen would let the State Board of Veterinary Examiners have its own law enforcement wing with guns and badges, etc..HB 1656 by Eilanc/Zerwas would create a $5 surcharge on moving violations to pay for indigent EMS services. [read post]
2 Apr 2013, 12:17 pm by Stephen Bilkis
As an attorney on the panel, the accused was assigned to represent indigent clients in the Bronx County Family Court. [read post]
8 Mar 2013, 4:53 am by Gritsforbreakfast
They could also charge fees to defendants not to exceed $1,000, but many will be indigent and anyway that's likely not enough by itself to cover the costs. [read post]
3 Feb 2013, 7:43 am by Gritsforbreakfast
The defendant must also choose conferencing, as he waives his right to trial and appeal. [read post]
19 Jan 2013, 7:14 am by Gritsforbreakfast
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]
15 Jan 2013, 6:37 am by Sarah Erickson-Muschko
Louisiana, a case dealing with an indigent defendant’s right to a speedy trial, focused on Justice Thomas’s apparent joke about his alma mater, Yale Law School, during oral arguments, which ended nearly seven years of silence on the bench. [read post]
10 Jan 2013, 5:35 am by Gritsforbreakfast
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]
8 Jan 2013, 7:58 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Ditto for raises for state troopers, whose salaries are increasingly uncompetitive with their counterparts in large Texas cities.Meanwhile, the Texas Indigent Defense Commission has requested a large increase to pay for county-level indigent defense costs, which have more or less doubled since the Texas Fair Defense Act passed in 2001. [read post]
29 Nov 2012, 1:51 pm
A Lawyer said that, plaintiff testified that, just prior to his accident he was in the process of disassembling the free-standing furniture rack system while standing on a particle-board deck located on the third level of the rack. [read post]
29 Nov 2012, 1:51 pm
A Lawyer said that, plaintiff testified that, just prior to his accident he was in the process of disassembling the free-standing furniture rack system while standing on a particle-board deck located on the third level of the rack. [read post]
23 Jul 2012, 9:46 am by Jamison Koehler
No matter how qualified its own attorneys may be, PDS also worries about the quality of legal representation provided to indigent defendants across the board. [read post]
18 Jun 2012, 9:07 am by Steve Hall
Di Giulio, who serves on the Louisiana Public Defender Board, says local public defender offices and the regional offices that help them out already are overworked and underfunded. [read post]