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24 Jul 2008, 4:06 pm
"State report says Dallas County shouldn't cut public defender's appeal unit," by Kevin Krause.The Dallas County public defender's office wants to prevent its relatively new appeals division from becoming a casualty of this year's budget crisis. [read post]
17 Nov 2010, 8:34 am
For that reason, I nominate public defenders as the Dallas Morning News Texan(s) of the Year. [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]
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]
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]
25 Oct 2006, 5:16 am
Speaking of Injustice Anywhere, in this post she described the difference in the level of office support she encountered moving from the Dallas public defender office to her new PD digs in Washington State:At my old office in Texas, we had one office manager, one receptionist, three secretaries, six investigators, and a Spanish interpreter. [read post]
2 Aug 2019, 7:41 am
Dallas County district attorney’s office said it had 28 cases involving certified juveniles in 2018. [read post]
2 Aug 2019, 7:41 am
Dallas County district attorney’s office said it had 28 cases involving certified juveniles in 2018. [read post]
3 Apr 2007, 1:23 pm
The subtitle of this major article is, Study: Dallas County could save millions using public defenders.Dallas County formed the state's first public defender's office more than two decades ago to offer inexpensive... [read post]
30 Apr 2014, 4:44 pm
Dallas County is the only county in the entire state that is currently participating in a program that has been implemented jointly by the Dallas County Jail; the Dallas County District Attorney’s Office; and the local field office of Homeland Security’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). [read post]
17 Oct 2018, 6:50 am
Your correspondent and Just Liberty signed onto this letter supporting creation of a public defender office in Travis County. [read post]
14 Apr 2014, 2:31 pm
So I understand why it's difficult for them to manage that part of the process.Even so, personally I'd prefer the county fund a full-blown public defender office to handle a significant chunk of its regular caseload, a model that has worked well in Dallas and Houston. [read post]
1 Dec 2006, 9:42 am
As related to my earlier post about Collin County's fiscal woes, perhaps rather than adjusting court-appointed fees, they should create a public defenders office! [read post]
5 Apr 2007, 5:24 am
Last year, Dallas County criminal district judges assigned just 38 percent of cases to public defenders, county budget office figures show. [read post]
8 Feb 2012, 5:55 am
Looks like Dallas is jealous of Collin County's Shenanigans. [read post]
3 Apr 2007, 8:40 am
Here's a pretty comprehensive article on the costs and benefits of the public defender system in Dallas County from the Dallas Morning News. [read post]
6 Apr 2016, 11:02 am
Ditto the Dallas County Sheriff’s Department. [read post]
21 Sep 2021, 10:37 am
To compound the issue, the Dallas County District Attorney's office did not learn about the issue until months after it occurred. [read post]
16 Dec 2011, 12:49 pm
The county budget office has reported that they do not track how much the county has spent defending itself against such lawsuits. [read post]
25 May 2016, 3:06 am
Susan Hawk’s office stepped back from the John Wiley Price case because of a conflict of interest: for one thing, Price is a Dallas County Commissioner and the Commissioners control the DA Office’s budget. [read post]
