Sentences with phrase «public defense commission»

But the state's attorneys say the blame should lie on the counties, not Idaho Gov. C.L. «Butch» Otter and the state's Public Defense Commission.

The program should be headed by an independent public defense commission

Not exact matches

The commission committee that approved this proposal on a 6 - 1 vote in January heard well - founded criticisms from defense lawyers, public defenders and even the Police Chiefs Association.

Hiram Monserrate turned himself in to federal authorities in connection with the NYC Council slush fund scandal, a commission of his former legislative colleagues, which rarely takes action against one of its own, found reasonable cause to believe that he violated the Public Officers Law by setting up a legal defense fund and soliciting contributions from from individuals and entities that had business interests in his work as a senator.

Other defense witnesses include people who are or have been employed by Cuomo's office, the state's economic development agency, Cuomo's budget division and the Public Service Commission, which regulates power plants such as the one built by Competitive Power Ventures, which employed Kelly, one of the defendants, and hired Percoco's wife.

Those limits were in keeping with the 1979 law (Public Law 96 - 164, Section 213) that authorized WIPP «a research and development facility to demonstrate the safe disposal of radioactive wastes from the defense activities and programs of the United States exempted from regulation by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission» (NRC).

Washington — The Reagan Administration's education policies are «out of step» with the beliefs of the American public, according to a survey on «prominent issues in the 1984 elections» commissioned by the Project on Equal Education Rights of the now Legal Defense and Education Fund.

Pretrial Practices in Two Texas Jurisdictions: A Comparison of Risk - Informed and Financial Pretrial Release Systems - James D. Bethke, Texas Indigent Defense Commission; Dottie Carmichael, Texas A & M Public Policy Research Institute; Meg Ledyard, Travis County Courts

The data was a «game - changer,» Hanlon says, in the Missouri State Public Defender Commission's relationship with the state legislature, which hadn't increased indigent defense funding in years.

Chris Spesia has represented the Firm's public utility client in land use and construction disputes with municipalities and in the Illinois Commerce Commission, including multiple acquisition transactions and defense of customer complaints.

The obstructionists, in Stewart's view, included county prosecutors, the trial judge, the assistant public defender who represented him at his first trial (which ended in a mistrial), the private defense lawyer who represented him between the two trials, jail officials he says unfairly denied him access to the law library and the state Attorney Grievance Commission.