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The Broward County Sheriff's Office (BSO) is a public safety organization with 5,400 employees, [2] it is the largest sheriff's office in the state of Florida.Sheriff Gregory Tony heads the agency.
Broward County Public Defender Gordon Weekes declined comment. Scherer's handling of the case drew frequent praise from the parents and spouses of the victims, who said she treated them with ...
The NAACP is seeking a federal investigation of deaths in Florida's second-largest county jail system, saying the Broward Sheriff's Office does not adequately monitor inmates or provide them with ...
The term public defender in the United States is often used to describe a lawyer who is appointed by a court to represent a defendant who cannot afford to hire an attorney. More correctly, a public defender is a lawyer who works for a public defender's office, a government-funded agency that provides legal representation to indigent defendants.
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]
Rural parts North Carolina have fewer public defenders, limiting some criminal defendants’ access to legal representation, a Constitutional right. Nearly half of NC counties are ‘legal deserts.’
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