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WA: monitoring the Grant County settlement agreement

From the Wenatchee World:Grant County warned about public defendersGrant County?s public defenders made significant progress last year, but could suffer serious setbacks due to recent changes, according to an attorney who tracks how well the county serves indigents charged with a crime.Beginning in March, the county will provide at least part of its public defense through a county department rather than lawyers who hold contracts with the county. The rush to an in-house department and a change in supervising defense attorneys "have been extremely disruptive," according to the fourth-quarter report by monitoring attorney Tito Rodriguez of Seattle...This latest monitor's report has been burning up the listserv of our state criminal defense association, and the discussion seems to be taking place without most of the commenters having read the report...continue to full post

Full post as published by Arbitrary and Capricious on February 03, 2009 (boomark / email).