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Legislation in Senate committee would overhaul Task Force on Indigent Defense

State Sen. Rodney Ellis has a substantive bill up today in the Senate Criminal Justice Committee, SB 170, which I'm told would implement recommendations from the legislative working group of the Task Force on Indigent Defense - basically overhauling and renaming the agency.The bill provocatively includes in its caption the "reorganization of funding sources for indigent defense," so I'm sure a lot of folks at the county level are paying close attention. I haven't had time to read and digest it myself, but here's a bill analysis I received from Sen. Ellis' office describing the contents of the committee substitute. Also, the good folks at the Texas Criminal Justice Coalition forwarded me a copy of Ana Yañez Correa's testimony to the committee on the subject, which I've uploaded here, for those interested in more detail...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on March 08, 2011 (boomark / email).