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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.
Term of service Appointed by Active Chief Senior; 58 Chief Judge Cecilia Altonaga: Miami: 1962 2003–present 2021–present — G.W. Bush: 45 District Judge K. Michael Moore: Miami: 1951 1992–present 2014–2021 — G.H.W. Bush: 50 District Judge Donald M. Middlebrooks: West Palm Beach: 1946 1997–present — — Clinton: 52 District Judge ...
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]
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Former Broward County Circuit Judge Elizabeth Scherer told the Florida International University law students that the attorneys “lost their minds” as they defended Nikolas Cruz during his 2022 trial for the killing of 14 students and three staff members at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Feb. 14, 2018.
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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Beasley spent her first years after law school as an assistant public defender in Cumberland County, North Carolina. [2] She was first appointed to the bench as a state district court judge by Governor Jim Hunt in 1999, and then elected in a 2002 election. She was reelected without opposition in 2006. [7]