The bail letter used
at his arraignment provided few more details.
Not exact matches
Fund a pilot program to
provide counsel to indigent persons
at arraignment.
A plan is being developed by the Office of Indigent Legal Services that is aimed
at providing counsel
at arraignment, establishing caseload standards and
providing attorneys with necessary training.
His priorities include implementing procedures to deal with new requirements to
provide counsel to all defendants
at the initial
arraignment; taking advantage of modern information technology in the court to process its caseload and exchange information with other parts of the state court system; and to improve the court's ability to address the problems of domestic violence and substance abuse.
It is ironic that we generally
provide assigned counsel
at arraignment to people caught in public with an open can of beer — and rightly so — but if those people appear in court because they are about to lose the roof over their heads, they are on their own.