Sentences with phrase «counsel at arraignment»

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.

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.

«Expanding off - hours arraignments will help to protect the Constitutional rights of defendants, both by minimizing delays in the arraignment process, and ensuring that defendants can be represented by counsel at arraignment,» Attorney General Schneiderman said.

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Fund a pilot program to provide counsel to indigent persons at arraignment.

He further told the court that Olujimi was at the point of arraignment a member of the defence team, and so «if the court orders for the case to go on, it can not amount to infringement of his right to choose a counsel for himself».

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.