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29 Jul 2012, 8:07 am
KPLCtv.com: "Well, today the Calcasieu Public Defenders Office announced it must cut back services due to budget shortfalls and that the office will withdraw as counsel for about 400 felony cases it's now appointed to handle. [read post]
6 Jul 2023, 4:38 am
From Law360, via NACDL's news update: The legislation, A5587/S3771, eliminates all public defender fees, as well as any unpaid civil judgments, property liens and warrants issued for unpaid balances associated with services from the New Jersey Office of the Public... [read post]
6 Dec 2006, 5:42 am
Editorial from The (South Florida) Sun-Sentinel: ISSUE: An assistant public defender is arrested for DUI for the second time.As Palm Beach County's public defender, Carey Haughwout is naturally defense-oriented. [read post]
23 Mar 2007, 1:58 pm
Welcome Brand New Orleans PD:It's one thing to tell yourself that you'll accept a job offer from the New Orleans Public Defender on the spot. [read post]
29 Aug 2008, 5:05 pm
Sonny Perdue, the state public defender council's board on Thursday voted not to submit a budget that would cut the struggling agency's funding by at least 6 percent. [read post]
29 Jul 2009, 1:32 am
Texas, unlike other states with capital punishment, had not used the public defender's office to handle the habeus corpus writs for their capital offenders, but instead had hired outside attorneys who often missed deadlines or wrote "skeletal writs". [read post]
5 May 2016, 10:18 am
Caseloads for the public defender's office is exploding across our country. [read post]
7 Sep 2007, 8:31 am
"Public defenders office was created in short time," is the title of an editorial in today's Lubbock Avalanche-Journal. [read post]
27 Apr 2010, 8:38 am
That's every county with a population of less than 300,000.The office would remain headquartered in Lubbock, but would have 10 satellite offices and include a chief public defender, assistant chief public defender, 29 attorneys, 16 investigators, 23 mitigation specialists and 18 legal secretaries. [read post]
9 Nov 2008, 2:57 pm
The title of this post is the title of this front-page article appearing in today's New York Times. [read post]
15 Jan 2008, 7:57 am
"The state's first public defender office for capital murder cases is now open in Lubbock. [read post]
7 Jul 2008, 2:01 pm
Texas Lawyer published a detailed adumbration of the imbroglio surrounding allegedly politicized firings at the Dallas Public Defender's Office beginning with the chief, Brad Lollar. [read post]
28 Aug 2016, 9:26 am
Few public employees actually win their First Amendment retaliation cases in the Court of Appeals, which has to follow the Supreme Court's Garcetti opinion, which says that workplace speech is not protected under the First Amendment if it arises from the employee's normal job duties. [read post]
8 Dec 2007, 4:35 am
"I really thought when I agreed to accept the position that somewhere there was ‘The Idiot's Guide to Creating a Public Defender's Office,' " Jordan said. [read post]
8 Feb 2007, 5:42 am
From nwitimes.com (Indiana):Layoffs and drastic funding cuts to the Cook County public defender's office are threatening to throw the already overburdened office into a crisis.Critics of the proposed budget cuts, outlined last week in a letter by Cook County Board President Todd Stroger's office, fear that diminished staff and resources will force the remaining attorneys to turn away many indigent… [read post]
19 Mar 2007, 5:28 am
"Active caseloads have not decreased despite the department's efforts, as case filings have outpaced staff increases," according to the public defender's business plan for 2008. [read post]
8 Dec 2006, 5:46 am
From The Gainesville (Georgia) Times:A legislative report released this week evaluating Hall County's public defender office leveled criticisms at an agency that has been under heavy scrutiny this year from local elected officials. [read post]
19 Oct 2011, 5:35 am
"Poor management and lack of training for new lawyers in the Allegheny County public defender's office are violating the constitutional rights of those accused of crimes and costing the county millions of dollars in extra jail costs, an ACLU report has concluded. [read post]
22 Jul 2007, 8:33 am
Today's San Antonio Express-News has an editorial, "Counties, defendants benefit from program. [read post]
6 Feb 2017, 11:05 am
Steven Hale wrote an article in last week's Nashville Scene on the Nashville Public Defenders Office overwhelming caseload. [read post]
