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The State of Indigent Defense in Texas

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The current Texas Lawyer has a major article by John Council and Jonathan Fox, "Common Clashes: Politics, Pressure and the Public Defender's Office."  Here's an excerpt from the beginning of the article:On June 10, the Task Force on Indigent Defense was preparing to release a second edition of its "Blueprint for Creating a Public Defender Office in Texas" when it thought better of that idea. The reason? That very day Brad Lollar, chief of the Dallas County Public Defender's Office ? the largest and oldest one in Texas ? had turned in his resignation to the Dallas County Commissioners Court amidst controversy. The blueprint "was ready to go, but we thought we better wait a week," says Wesley Shackelford, special counsel for the task force...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on July 07, 2008 (boomark / email).