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Supervisors may create Office of Indigent Legal Services

By Gideon

From the Kingman Daily Miner (AZ): A new plan is in the works to take some of the confusion out of indigent defense at the County Superior Court. The County Public Defender’s and Legal Defender’s offices will present a plan during Tuesday’s Board of Supervisor’s meeting that will create an Office of Indigent Legal Services. The Board will meet at 9:30 a.m. Tuesday in the County Administration Building, 700 W. Beale St. The office, according to material provided to the Board, will reorganize how indigent defense cases are processed. Currently, if a defendant cannot afford to pay for an attorney, a judge assigns the case to the PDO. If the PDO has a conflict of interest in taking the case or currently does not have an attorney that can take the case, the case is then assigned to the LDO...continue to full post

Full post as published by Public Defender Stuff on February 16, 2009 (boomark / email).