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20 Aug 2008, 5:44 pm
A public defender commission board would be established to set the salaries for public defenders among other duties which include standard and program requirement adherence and monitoring. [read post]
21 May 2012, 8:13 am by royblack
The deep south was not ready to accept public defense for indigent, mainly black defendants, not unlike how it refused to accept Brown v School Board. [read post]
3 Feb 2012, 3:03 pm by Danny Jacobs
  House Judiciary Committee could undo counsel at bail review ruling — by Steve Lash The House Judiciary Committee appears poised to undo a court ruling that indigent defendants have a statutory right to counsel when their bail is set — a right the public defender estimates would cost the state $28 million annually. [read post]
27 Apr 2020, 10:14 am by jlucivero
She currently serves as the president and attorney-in-charge of the Office of the Appellate Defender, Inc., one of New York City’s oldest institutional providers of indigent appellate defense representation. [read post]
22 May 2007, 9:29 am
Effective 10/1/07 AB 77 - Makes various changes concerning the competency of defendants. [read post]
5 Sep 2007, 10:32 am
You all need to stop bitchin and get on board to make this thing work. [read post]
7 Aug 2011, 7:28 pm
Ostensibly, the law applied only to Level 3 sex offenders, which are considered the most likely to reoffend, according to the Massachusetts Sex Offender Registry Board (“SORB.”) [read post]
7 Aug 2011, 7:28 pm
Ostensibly, the law applied only to Level 3 sex offenders, which are considered the most likely to reoffend, according to the Massachusetts Sex Offender Registry Board (“SORB. [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]
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]
7 Sep 2010, 7:56 am by Ana Yáñez-Correa
Ø Provide Additional Help to Counties In light of the many improvements to indigent defense since the passage of FDA, policy-makers must seriously consider any requests for additional funding proposed by the Task Force, even if incremental, to assist counties in maintaining well-run public defender offices and other successful indigent defense programs. [read post]
12 Mar 2017, 7:04 am by Gritsforbreakfast
 We’re not going to have any indigent cases, and they’re going to take our jobs. [read post]
25 Jan 2018, 12:24 pm by John Floyd
  By December 2009, a serious conflict of interest had developed between McCoy and the public defender’s office—not an uncommon occurrence in indigent cases. [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]
2 Dec 2014, 12:05 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
To my mind, if the state chooses to fund indigent defense at that level it will have a lot more say in its efficient delivery via public defender systems as opposed to the sorts of screwy, outlier systems (I'm talking to you, Comal County) the TIDC has taken to funding of late. [read post]
10 Mar 2010, 10:16 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Like most Texas drug defendants, this fellow was no kingpin, but Texas taxpayers will foot the bill for his room, board and healthcare for many years to come.If legislators want to sustainably cut 5% from TDCJ's budget, among the quickest ways would be to ratchet drug penalties down one notch across the board, maxxing out at a second degree felony instead of first and making less than a gram possession a Class A misdemeanor. [read post]
1 Nov 2014, 4:16 am by Jon Gelman
Now, all employers are charged with the same methodology, leading to a lower assessment rate for all New York's employers.The Workers' Compensation Board is continuing to enforce of the legal requirement for employers to carry workers' compensation insurance expands the pool of insureds. [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]
24 Feb 2007, 8:48 am
Nance ordered telephone circuit boards to upgrade an old system, hid the new boards by her work station, then gave them to her husband, Raymond, to sell. [read post]