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First Circuit Request for Comments on Reappointment of Joseph Laws, Federal Public Defender for the District of Puerto Rico

By Tom Lincoln

The Court of Appeals for the First Circuit has published a Request for Comments Relating to the Reappointment of Joseph C. Laws, Jr., Federal Public Defender for the District of Puerto Rico. Joe is a Charter Member of PRACDL and was our first President. At that time Joe was in private practice, having already served his own stint at the Federal Public Defender's Office years back under the stewardship of the Grand Master - don Gerardo Ortíz del Rivero. The relationship between the Federal Public Defender's Office for the District of Puerto Rico and PRACDL was built in to our own by-laws, by assuring that the Federal Public Defender was a permanent Board member of PRACDL. Article III, Sec. B of PRACDL's By-Laws establishes that:The Board shall consist of nine (9) directors...continue to full post

Full post as published by Puerto Rico Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers on June 28, 2008 (boomark / email).