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Whose Mobile Witness?

Posted on November 20, 2008
Techno Esq. points to a service called My Mobile Witness that intends to help people, well, prove they are telling the truth. According to the site, it anticipates that someone will somehow document a crime or other questionable situation just before or as it’s happening, and send the documentation (a photo or text message, maybe [...

Tomorrow will be a better day

Posted on November 19, 2008
Hi. I’m the guy who blogs sporadically over at the imbroglio. Gideon has been busy working and focusing on Connecticut criminal law on his main blog so I volunteered to help out a little here at PD Stuff to keep the PD news and errata flowing. My goal is to increase the posting frequency here [...

Public Defender?s Office needs funds

Posted on October 18, 2008
From WWLTV.com: “Prosecuting criminals is an important part of keeping order in the city,” said Ken Foster, anti-crime advocate and co-founder of Silence Is Violence. But Foster acknowledges that doesn’t tell the whole story. “The other side of the coin is the Public Defenders Office...

Standards on public defenders issued

Posted on October 18, 2008
From the San Francisco Chronicle: A divided Nevada Supreme Court has adopted standards to ensure that indigents charged with crimes get adequate legal counsel, and has set an April 1 deadline for implementing those standards. The high court’s order, released Friday, also gives Washoe and Clark Counties, Nevada’s largest, until next May to complete studies on caseloads [...

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MO public defenders will begin refusing clients

Posted on October 18, 2008
And the merry go round continues: Beginning this week, public defender offices across Missouri will be able to refuse new clients as they try to deal with huge backlogs of cases. The Missouri Public Defender Commission approved a policy in July that allows local offices to opt out of new cases if they exceed maximum caseload capacity [...

And so it finally begins

Posted on October 18, 2008
From public defender blogger “A Daddy, A Mommy, And A Tater Tot“: The trial of the State v. Reed, second degree murder, starts tomorrow morning in Mohave County Superior Court. I am second chair to my boss, Dana, and it will be my first experience trying a felony case to a jury...

State lawyers in FL, GA face furloughs

Posted on October 14, 2008
From law.com: As state budgets in Florida and Georgia are slashed, their criminal justice systems are taking a hit. Hundreds of prosecutors and assistant public defenders in Georgia and Florida are facing one-day-a-month furloughs — forced unpaid leave — through the end of the year...

Assistant public defender receives award

Posted on October 14, 2008
From Democrat and Chronicle.com: An assistant Monroe County public defender has been honored by the New York State Bar Association as a lawyer who provides extraordinary legal services to low-income and disadvantaged clients. Andre Vitale, 39, received the Denison Ray Award from the state Bar Association for his work in the Public Defender’s Office...

Public defender wants video link to jail

Posted on October 14, 2008
From KOLNKGIN.com: The Hall County public defender’s office is asking county supervisors to consider a video connection from that office to the jail. The request from Public Defender Gerard Piccolo comes as defense attorneys have to drive more to see clients because the county’s new jail is on a busy highway outside of the downtown government center...

SCOTUS to review speedy trial issue

Posted on October 14, 2008
From the Cook County Public Defenders Blog: The U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear, and will most certainly overrule, and odd decision of the Vermont Supreme Court dismissing a conviction on speedy trial grounds because of delays attributed solely to the defendant?s public defenders...

New pd blog posts

Posted on October 14, 2008
Here are the new public defender blog posts: a public defenderA Public Defender’s Life in AlaskaA Year in the LifeAbolish the Death PenaltyArbitrary and CapriciousBetween A Laugh And A TearBlonde JusticeCook County Public Defenders BlogDefending the PublicDefending Those PeopleDefense Newsletter BlogDoubtslingerthe Dream AntillesFive Borough DefenseGo West Young TexHammers and Scalesthe imbroglioIndefensibleInfinity RanchIpse DixitJayKansas DefendersKansas Federal DefenderlawbabeakNinth [...

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