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Indigent Defense in Missouri

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"Missouri lawmakers approve public defender changes," is Chris Blank's AP report via the Missourian.Missouri lawmakers gave final approval Thursday to what backers called a triage effort for a public defender system in crisis. Under the bill now headed to Gov. Jay Nixon, the state Public Defender Commission would be allowed to set maximum caseload standards for the lawyers who represent people who are accused of crimes but cannot afford a private attorney.The commission also could contract with private attorneys to handle the excess cases if there is available money. When caseload limits have been exceeded and there isn't additional money for contract defenders, the state would establish a waiting list for defendants to be assigned a lawyer...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on May 15, 2009 (boomark / email).