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Chicago Public Defender Faces Dismissal

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That's the title of Lynne Marek's report for the next issue of National Law Journal.  LINKOfficials for Cook County, Ill., which includes the Chicago metropolitan area, will soon decide whether to fire for the first time ever the county's public defender. The Cook County Board of Commissioners will consider a resolution calling for the ouster of Public Defender Edwin A. Burnette at a May 7 hearing after Democratic Board President Todd H. Stroger moved to dismiss Burnette earlier this year. Discussions among commissioners on the matter are raising legal questions about what authority they have to weigh in on Burnette's fate. While Illinois law gives the president power to terminate the defender for "good cause," some commissioners want input too and fear the issue may end up in court...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on April 29, 2008 (boomark / email).