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Dallas County to Keep Appellate PD

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The Dallas Morning News report is "Dallas County to keep public defender's appellate division." The Dallas County public defender?s appellate division is safe for now.       County commissioners agreed today to keep the division of five lawyers intact after hearing support for the unit from judges as well as a state judicial task force that said the county?s lawyers are cost effective. Commissioners initially had considered dissolving the 20-month-old division to save $250,000, part of a budget-cutting exercise to close a $34 million budget shortfall. The commissioners several weeks ago had questioned the division?s cost-effectiveness since not all judges were using their public defenders. Commissioner John Wiley Price said this morning during a budget hearing that he?s encouraged that judges vow to assign more cases to the public defenders...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on July 29, 2008 (boomark / email).