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2-1 vote terminates Maryland's chief Public Defender.

By Marks & Katz, LLC

Last night, a 2-1 vote of the Board of Trustees of the Maryland Public Defender System terminated Nancy Forster, the state's chief Public Defender since 2001. I was a Maryland public defender lawyer for five years, until 1996. Nancy joined the office as a law clerk in 1984, later became chief of the appellate division, and then moved to the helm of the statewide agency.  The details of the termination vote are fuzzy, other than the below brief separate statements from Ms. Forster and T. Wray McCurdy, chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Public Defender System. Nancy has been selfless in sharing her wisdom and experience with all criminal defense lawYers in Maryland. Nancy -- and her two public defender appellate colleagues who joined in the oral argument brainstorming session -- was totally selfless, devoted, and delightful in collaborating with me on my appeal that was joined with hers, leading to the spectacular landmark double jeopardy decision in Maryland v...continue to full post

Full post as published by Underdog on August 21, 2009 (boomark / email).