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Public defenders and excessive case loads: the Florida test case

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Robert Boruchowitz at Crim Law Prof Blog and George Conk at Otherwise discuss the test case to be heard by the Florida Supreme Court over the clash between competent, constitutional representation and the limitations imposed by inadequate public funding of PD offices.  [State v. Public Defender, Eleventh Judicial Circuit, 12 So. 3d 798 (Fla. 3d DCA 2009), review granted, No. SC09-1181 (Fla. May 19, 2010).]  The PD office has put up a resources page.

Normally, you'd think that funding is the province of a legislature. But when PDs have literally hundreds of cases and cannot offer minimally competent and diligent representation, the courts have to do something.  

Full post as published by Legal Ethics Forum on July 12, 2010 (boomark / email).

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