Sentences with phrase «against public defenders»

The most frequent complaint against public defenders seems to be questioning their commitment to that particular client's case.

Not against the public defender who failed to call crucial witnesses on his behalf.

Not exact matches

You defenders of religion keep some interesting company: Osama Bin LLaden, Iraninan Mullahs, Saudi Wahabists (who will cut your head off in public if you preach anything but Islam), Joe Smith who preached that black people did not have souls (the church changed it mind after the civil rights act and are now bigotted against gay people), the Taliban, the pope and his child rapists, ignorant & stupid evangelicals who think that revelations is a roadmap to the future.

That night, for a game against Reno, Huffaker, the public defender, took over the PA duties, announced the 24 - second countdowns in lieu of a shot clock (which Speed kept) and then used the mike to introduce buxom cheerleaders, infant ball boys, puzzled journalists and practically everybody else in the «crowd» who was breathing.

His final competition was lackluster, too: Collin Klein, who was the effective leader of an effective Kansas State team, lost his inside track at the Troy Smith Memorial Vote for being the public face of an undefeated title contender, and Manti Te'o had to overcome decades of bias against defenders... and tackle totals that dropped in his senior season as the defense around him made it easier for him to do his job and easier for Notre Dame to win.

Update: After original publication of its report, the Public Committee Against Torture in Israel released an amended version, acknowledging that the information from the Public Defender's Office about child prisoners being kept in cages did not refer specifically to Palestinians.

Public defenders oppose courthouse arrests by immigration authorities, but administrators said lawyers» protests against the practice were disruptive.

When state Supreme Court Justice Joseph Teresi of the Third Judicial District retired from his second 14 - year term half way through on June 26, the Albany Democrat and former public defender set up a race that's pitting his fellow Albany Law School alumni, Democratic Albany County legislator and private attorney Justin Corcoran, against Greene County - based Republican Lisa M. Fisher, an attorney with the Ulster County Public Defender's opublic defender set up a race that's pitting his fellow Albany Law School alumni, Democratic Albany County legislator and private attorney Justin Corcoran, against Greene County - based Republican Lisa M. Fisher, an attorney with the Ulster County Public Defender'sdefender set up a race that's pitting his fellow Albany Law School alumni, Democratic Albany County legislator and private attorney Justin Corcoran, against Greene County - based Republican Lisa M. Fisher, an attorney with the Ulster County Public Defender's oPublic Defender'sDefender's office.

This selection weighed against the selection of Zach Carter as Corporation Counsel (because he reportedly befriends disgraced public official John L. Sampson, but was a John Gotti, Jr. slayer and Abner Louima defender and knows that «Stop & Frisk» is not racial profiling when done right) may suggest bi-polarity for the mayor - elect, but I trust not paranoia for me as I am at a befuddled disadvantage on what to expect next: but we can ask a de Blasio agreement with Gov. Cuomo that neither of them will be involved in selecting the next Council Chair (because that would not only be unlawful but power prejudice ugly in these times of moral decay by the elected).

There was an outcry from both animal welfare groups and animal research defenders 13 months ago when the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) blacked out a public database containing thousands of animal welfare inspection reports, as well as records of enforcement actions that USDA took against violators of the Animal Welfare Act, including research facilities.

Defenders of the public - school monopoly have had limited success in their lawfare against school choice, despite a few painful decisions.

After all, it is one that actually casts defenders of traditional public education as crusaders against plutocrats who simply want to bash teachers, end public education and abandon democracy.

Earlier this month, in an effort to protect federal public defender offices against «permanent damage,» the committee announced a plan to reduce and delay compensation for private lawyers appointed under the Criminal Justice Act to represent indigent defendants.

Imagine the public's confusion when former AFN Regional Chief Jodi Wilson Raybould, as Minister of Justice, appears in litigation against Mi «kmaw or Maliseet land defenders asserting our Aboriginal and treaty rights and Canada's evidence will include affidavits from former AFN National Chiefs saying the pipeline is great business?

Four Bay Area elected officials, all Democrats, are speaking out against a campaign by San Francisco public defenders to unseat Republican - appointed judges in this year's elections.

But this year in San Francisco, a group of deputy public defenders are running against sitting judges under the misleading slogan «Democrats for Judges.»

In stunning fashion in February, four deputy public defenders announced that they would each run against an incumbent judge because they were appointed to the bench by Republican governors and do not reflect San Francisco's diversity.

Musings of a Public Defender about Drug Treatment Court Practice, 26 N.Y.U. Rev. L. & Social Change 37 (2000), Peggy F. Hora, et al., Therapeutic Jurisprudence and the Drug Treatment Court Movement: Revolutionizing the Criminal Justice System?s Response to Drug Abuse and Crime in America, 74 Notre Dame L. Rev. (1999), and Gary Morse, An Argument Against the Creation of Mental Health Courts, St. Louis Post Dispatch (September 30, 1998).