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The Office of the Illinois State Appellate Defender came under severe criticism in the late 2010s for the lengthy queue required for clients - most of them persons convicted of felonies and subject to imprisonment - to get their cases actively taken up by OSAD. As one point, OSAD had more than 3,759 cases under advisement.
The State Appellate Defender's Office disclosed these developments in a Monday court filing, one day before jury selection is set to begin for Jennifer Crumbley, who, like her husband, James, is ...
The Wisconsin State Public Defender has been used as a model for other states and several countries. Wisconsin has a program that uses both staff attorneys and appointments to attorneys in private practice. State public defender systems can vary widely from state to state, county to county, and from federal defender organizations.
The Illinois Courts Commission, composed of one Supreme Court justice, two Appellate Court judges, two circuit court judges and two citizens, has the authority after notice and public hearing to remove from office, suspend without pay, censure or reprimand any member of the judiciary for willful misconduct in office, persistent failure to ...
The remainder of Section 3, Article 27A pertains to the Public Defender’s use of the budget in that it shall provide suitable offices within the state with at least one office in each district, and that all employees including personnel such as investigators, stenographers, clerical assistants and other staff shall be provided a salary ...
Recall the Louisiana Public Defender Act of 2007 mandates that the state public defender system remain “free from undue political and judicial interference and free of conflicts of interest ...
A spokesman for District Attorney Mark Dupree’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment Friday. Neither did an attorney with the Kansas Appellate Defender Office who handled ...
The Office of the Colorado State Public Defender provides legal assistance to individuals charged with a crime in Colorado state court who are financially unable to retain private counsel. The office consists of 21 regional trial offices, a centralized appellate office that handles appeals from every jurisdiction, and a centralized state ...