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The number of public defenders, their salary and other issues related to public defenders have been controversial. Eric Holder , the United States Attorney General in 2013, phrased the current issues of the public defender system as a state of crisis and saw the current system as a failure to uphold the Sixth Amendment as well as Gideon. [ 39 ]
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.
Florida Supreme Court Chief Justice Carlos G. Muniz assembled a 14-member panel made up of attorneys and judges to study the merits of consolidating the judicial circuits.
The chief federal public defender is appointed to a four-year term by the United States courts of appeals of the circuit in which the defender organization is located. The United States Congress placed this appointment authority in the United States courts of appeals rather than with the United States district court in order to insulate federal public defenders from the involvement of the ...
The last DCA expansion was the Florida Fifth District Court of Appeal in 1979. [2] Blaise Trettis, a public defender in Brevard County, served on the Assessment Committee. When the committee looked at yearly case filings, they found that there was “a precipitous decline” [4] in the number of appeals over the years. DCA judges were not ...
Bill White (born December 17, 1945) is an American lawyer who served as Public Defender for Florida's Fourth Judicial Circuit, which covers Clay, Duval, and Nassau Counties. . White was elected to the position in 2004, after serving as Chief Assistant Public Defender under his predecessor Lou Frost since
Frankel, an Ohio native, was an assistant public defender in Palm Beach County from 1999 until 2001 before opening his private practice specializing in criminal defense and government contracts.
Howard Finkelstein is a retired American attorney who served as the public defender of Broward County, Florida. He was first elected in 2004 and re-elected in 2008, 2012, and 2016. He was first elected in 2004 and re-elected in 2008, 2012, and 2016.