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Indigent Defense at Crossroads in Nevada

By Steve Hall

"Public Defender Caseload: State panel debates limits," is the title of Alan Maimon's report in today's Las Vegas Review-Journal.  Here's an extended excerpt: Court officials, equal-justice advocates, and county managers agree that action is needed to address a severe shortage of public defenders in Clark and Washoe counties.But at a Tuesday meeting of the state's indigent defense commission, they clashed on the details. Still in dispute in the weeks leading up to a critical Nevada Supreme Court hearing on the matter is whether the state's high court should order caseload limits or another form of relief for lawyers, who according to a recent report, are too overburdened to give "competent and diligent" counsel to indigent defendants...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on September 09, 2009 (boomark / email).