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Harris County needs an independent Public Defender office

Even as Dallas County commissioners' new caseload quotas and heightened bureaucracy gutted their Public Defender office (I learned over the weekend a 6th felony attorney turned in their resignation on top of the five mentioned earlier on Grits), in Harris County the commissioners court today will hear the details of a preliminary plan on how to create a PD office in Houston. The idea is still in the early stages and would require approval of the commissioners court to proceed. Reports the Houston Chronicle ("Harris County to review plan for public defenders office," Sept 23):A public defenders office would represent some indigent defendants in four criminal district courts and one juvenile court under a proposal to be presented to Commissioners Court today...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on September 23, 2008 (boomark / email).