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Lubbock Examines Private Defender for Mental Health Docket

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Mary Alice Robbins reports, "First and Goal: LCDLA Close to Creating Nonprofit to Run Private Defender'sOffice," in the current Texas LawyerConcerned that mentally impaired indigents too often languish in their jail, Lubbock County officials are trying a new approach - a private defender's office. It's a hybrid; a cross between a public defender's office and the assigned counsel system used in most Texas counties. Lubbock solo Ted Hogan says the Lubbock Criminal Defense Lawyers Association (LCDLA) is creating a nonprofit entity that will seek to contract with the county to run the private defender's office, which will assign attorneys in private practice to represent indigent defendants who are mentally ill or retarded. The courts would no longer appoint attorneys in those cases...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on August 13, 2008 (boomark / email).