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By ambimb

It’s good to have a post here every six months or so, don’t you think? In that spirit, and in case you missed these, here are a handful of great public defender stories from, oh, well, the last couple of months: Pubic Defender cited for contempt in Rochester, MN, for being unable to appear in two courtrooms at the same time. Many defense attorneys have experienced the friction that arises when judges decide to get in a snit because theirs is not the only court in the country, but this is taking it a little far. Does anyone have any idea how this turned out? There’s a lot of litigation in Missouri about whether public defenders can refuse new clients when caseloads get too high. It sounds like the debate is ongoing, but the Missouri Public Defender Commission is getting a new leader, so that’s something...continue to full post

Full post as published by Public Defender Stuff on November 06, 2010 (boomark / email).