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Capital-Defense Office Growing

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That's the headline in today's Amarillo Globe-News about the West Texas Regional Capital PD's office.  LINKTwo years ago, the office of the West Texas Regional Public Defender for Capital Cases was nothing but a dream. Now, a year after Lubbock attorney Jack Stoffregen took the reins of the fledgling program, the office is providing financial savings and quality representation beyond expectations. "It's just amazing to see that it's not only done what we thought it would do, but I think the office has done more than I even envisioned," said David Slayton, director of court administration for Lubbock County. The Lubbock-based office also has branches in Amarillo and Midland comprising an 11-person staff focused on the defense of indigent defendants charged with a capital offense in which the state is seeking the death penalty...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on November 24, 2008 (boomark / email).