Sentences with phrase «chief public defender»

Nikolas Cruz, 19, confessed to the crime, was held without bond and remained under a suicide watch, according to Executive Chief Public Defender Gordon Weekes.

Chief Public Defender Bennett Baur says his office is weighing an appeal to the state Supreme Court and that he would continue to raise issues of high caseloads and lack of resources.»

The suit names Edwards, Chief Public Defender Jay Dixon, and all members of the Louisiana Public Defender Board, the agency responsible for the oversight of statewide legal services for the poor in criminal cases.»

Attorney Wolf is also a member of the American Bar Association, Milford Bar Association, West Haven Bar Association, and Connecticut Bar Association, including Family Law, Estates and Probate and Young Lawyers Sections, as well as serving as co-chair for the Children in the Law Committee of the Young Lawyers Section Executive Committee and the National Academy of Jurisprudence Family Law Trial Attorneys Association Kristen Wolf is also a participating attorney for the Connecticut Women's Education and Legal Fund and serves as Assigned Counsel for the Office of the Chief Public Defender at the Bristol and Hartford Geographical Area (GA) courts and he Hartford Juvenile court for child protection and delinquency matters, as well as guardian ad litem in the Meriden and Middlesex Judicial Districts.

Other areas of the state could face the same problem of not having the means to provide lawyers to indigent defendants, said Ben Baur, New Mexico's chief public defender.

«Locking somebody up, just putting them in jail, doesn't seem to be the answer,» said Chief Public Defender Michael Young.

The office still needs a chief public defender.

Thomas Ullmann, a former chief public defender in Connecticut known for taking on difficult cases, has died while hiking in the Adirondacks, according to several people who knew him and media reports.

She also founded a private law practice, Sweeney & Wollowitz, and served as the chief public defender for Rensselaer County, earlier in her career.

«That amount of money would have already been gone,» said Howard Finkelstein, the chief public defender.

Howard Finkelstein, the chief public defender in Broward County, said the case would present a difficult question: Should society execute mentally ill people?

Chief Public Defender Bennett Baur insists on his agency's obligation to speak out when attorneys and budgets are strained.

Not exact matches

The Air Force Court of Appeals in May 2017 also reversed a conviction in the sexual assault case U.S. v. Boyce after finding that public statements by Sens. Claire McCaskill and Kirsten Gillibrand regarding the «Marines United» scandal earlier this year created «the appearance of unlawful command influence» in the case, as retired Col. Don Christensen, a former Air Force chief prosecutor and current president of the advocacy group Protect Our Defenders, told Task & Purpose at the time.

Matt Gonzalez, chief attorney in the public defender's office (left) listens as defense attorney Francisco Ugarte addresses the press outside of the courtroom after Jose Ines Garcia Zarate was found not guilty.

Chief Deputy Public Defender Matt Gonzalez, Jose Ines Garcia Zarate and Judge Samuel Feng listen as a court clerk reads the verdict in Zarate's murder trial on November 30, 2017.

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Mr. Weekes, the chief assistant public defender, said lawyers were still trying to piece together the details of Mr. Cruz's life.

• Mr. Cruz is being held without bond at the Broward County jail, where he has been placed on suicide watch, according to Gordon Weekes, the county's chief assistant public defender.

The district partnered with the offices of the sheriff, state attorney, public defender, and chief judge, as well as the NAACP, to rethink its disciplinary policies.

They don't show a complete picture,» chief assistant public defender Gordon Weekes said in a statement.

Broward County Public Defender Howard Finkelstein wrote to the chief judge saying that Ehrlich had «demonstrated aggressive and tyrannical behavior and revealed her lack of emotional fitness to sit on the bench.»

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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?

Robert Kerrigan, Esq., after graduating with honors from Florida State University College of Law in 1971, assumed a position with the Public Defender's Office, where he was later named Chief Assistant.

The leader of the Oregon Innocence Project, a retired chief federal public defender, after defending al - Qaida detainees at Guantanamo Bay, wrote a book capturing his thoughts on our justice system with the title «Kafka Comes to America.»

In Dutchess County, he has served as Chief Assistant Public Defender, Assistant District Attorney, and County Legislator, as well as Deputy Town Attorney for Poughkeepsie and Special Counsel to the Town of...

In 2012, on Maryland v. King, the case about the constitutionality of DNA testing, I worked with Steve Mercer, Chief Attorney in the Forensics Division for the Maryland Public Defenders.

We include the first openly lesbian judge in the nation; the first openly gay and lesbian appellate judges in California history; the founder of the National Center for Lesbian Rights; founders and former executive directors of Equal Rights Advocates and the East Bay Children's Law Offices; a former chief attorney in the San Francisco public defender's office, as well as several other former public defenders; a former California labor commissioner; a former chief deputy attorney general; and a former chief deputy city attorney and the lead counsel who successfully argued the historic gay marriage case that changed lives in our community forever.

American Council of Chief Defenders (ACCD)- The ACCD Conference convenes a national community of public defense leaders dedicated to securing a fair justice system and ensuring high quality legal representation for people facing loss of life, freedom, or family.

Gordon Weekes, one of Broward County's chief assistant public defenders, said although Cruz had a supportive mother, who died a few months ago, «he needed more.»

Alex Arreaza, who represents Stoneman Douglas student Anthony Borges, 15, cited a 2016 agreement endorsed by chief Broward prosecutor Mike Satz, Public Defender Howard Finkelstein, county school and law enforcement officials to «eliminate the school to prison pipeline.»

Chief Assistant Public Defender Gordon Weekes confirmed to reporters after the hearing ended that his team has had physical access to Cruz.

In a motion filed electronically Friday night, Public Defender Howard Finkelstein and his chief assistant, Diane Cuddihy, argued that Broward Circuit Judge Elizabeth Scherer flubbed her first decision in the case on Feb. 19 when she decided to disclose the contents of a confidential motion to the State Attorney's Office.

Where the money is — if it exists at all — is unknown, said Gordon Weekes, chief assistant public defender.

After the hearing, Chief Assistant Public Defender Gordon Weekes told reporters his team has had physical access to Cruz.