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The Amarillo Globe-News reports, "Randall joins death penalty team." Randall County is joining up with a task force that provides legal defense to indigents charged with capital murders in which the death penalty is being sought. Commissioners voted Tuesday in favor of an inter-local agreement with the West Texas Regional Public Defender of Capital Cases . A legislative mandate set up the program with the idea of reducing costs for participating counties and reducing the number of retrials. The office will serve 85 counties in the 7th and 9th Administrative Judicial Region. The central office will be located in Lubbock County . Each office around the state will consist of a chief public defender, four attorneys, two investigators, two mitigation specialists and two legal assistants...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on March 12, 2008 (boomark / email).