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Section 3 of Article 27A went into effect as the first stage of law concerning the Office of the Public Defender for Maryland. It decreed that the Office of the Public Defender is part of Maryland’s Executive Branch of government, and provided that a Public Defender shall be appointed head of the Office by the Board of Trustees. Furthermore ...
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]
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.
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Maryland Gov. Wes Moore, second from left, listens to Berlin Police Chief Arnold Downing, third from left, during the Maryland Municipal League's Police Executive Association breakfast in Ocean ...
The following is a list of some of the numbered articles, which were parts of the code before being reenacted and recodified into the named articles: 1 Rules of Interpretation; 2B Alcoholic Beverages; 19 Comptroller; 20 Tri-County Council for Southern Maryland; 20A Tri-County Council for Western Maryland
The chief judge of Maryland District Courts has banned all court employees, bailiffs, commissioners, constables, clerks, staff and judges from wearing face masks with the law enforcement symbol of ...
Maryland Office of the Public Defender; Massachusetts Committee for Public Counsel Services; Missouri State Public Defender; N. New Jersey Office of the Public Defender;