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  2. Cook County Public Defender - Wikipedia

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    The Cook County Public Defender provides legal representation for indigent clients in the areas of felony and misdemeanor criminal cases, delinquency, abuse/neglect, some appeals, post-conviction and traffic (non-petty) cases when appointed by the Court throughout Cook County, Illinois, which includes Chicago.

  3. Government of Cook County, Illinois - Wikipedia

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    The Cook County Sheriff's Office is the sheriff.All Cook County Sheriff's Deputies have police powers regardless of their particular job function or title. Like other Sheriffs' departments in Illinois, the Sheriff can provide all traditional law-enforcement functions, including county-wide patrol and investigations irrespective of municipal boundaries, even in the city of Chicago, but has ...

  4. Circuit Court of Cook County - Wikipedia

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    The Cook County Juvenile Court was the first juvenile court established in the U.S., in 1899. During its first quarter century, its most important person was Mary Bartelme, whose official titles were Cook County Public Guardian and then (after 1913) assistant to the judge. Bartelme devoted much of her life to child welfare and the reform of ...

  5. Cash bail disproportionately impacts communities of color ...

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    Between 1970 and 2015, there was a fivefold increase in the number of people jailed before trials, according to the 2022 U.S. Commission on Civil Rights report.

  6. Why Kevin Cook is stepping aside as Topeka Municipal Court ...

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    City paid Cook's firm $190,000 this year for public defense services. Cook notified the city Aug. 15 that his firm — Cook & Associates, LLC, doing business as Cook Law Office — effective Dec ...

  7. Clerk of the Circuit Court of Cook County - Wikipedia

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    Richard Jones Hamilton, First Circuit Court Clerk of Cook County, 1831–1841. On January 1, 1964, the circuit courts of Cook County were unified. [1] Before this, there were more than 200 separate courts in Cook County. [1] In its unified form, it now had a single, popularly elected, clerk of court. [1]

  8. Trial of former Cook County assistant state’s attorneys ...

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    A criminal trial of two former Cook County assistant state’s attorneys was halted suddenly Wednesday when prosecutors said they planned to file a rare mid-trial appeal after a judge limited ...

  9. Public defender (United States) - Wikipedia

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    The public defender system is not the only form of indigent defense program offered in the United States. Besides the public defender system, there are two other main alternatives: assigned-counsel system and contract-service system. [3] Assigned-counsel is where the court appoints a private lawyer to defend someone who cannot afford to pay. [3]