Sentences with phrase «for public defense»

In the past, I have worked as director of a public defenders office; I have worked in my own private law office; I developed a trial advocacy program for public defense attorneys throughout New York State; I have been a partner in a downtown New York City Law firm; I have argued appeals at every level including before the United States Supreme Court; I have tried death penalty murder...

Hurrell - Harring v. New York would have been the first time any state stood trial for its public defense failures, calling attention to a nationwide criminal justice crisis where poor, or indigent, defendants are too often effectively denied the right to counsel, creating a two - tiered system of justice.

The lawsuit charged that New York State's decision to abdicate responsibility for public defense to its counties resulted in a patchwork of often understaffed, poorly resourced and largely dysfunctional public defense systems where defendants were routinely arraigned without attorneys, urged to take plea bargains regardless of the facts of their cases, burdened by excessively high bail, and incarcerated for shockingly long periods for misdemeanors and petty crimes.

On the national level, Anthony is a member of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, the National Legal Aid and Defender Association (NLADA) and the National Association for Public Defense.

Hanlon, now general counsel for the National Association for Public Defense, thought there was a better way.

Instead of being intentionally manipulative and using «spin'the average person can't work out, and where «plausible deniability» is used for his public defense, now he can say it plainly without lying about it.

Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie on Friday touted the provisions in the state budget that address criminal justice reforms, which range from raising the age of criminal responsibility to 18 and providing funds for the public defense of indigents.

The settlement of a lawsuit brought by Suffolk, Washington, Ontario, Onondaga, and Schuyler counties would have the Office of Indigent Legal Services provide for public defense in those counties.

Supporters of spending for public defense for the poor came up with one way: a «Wheel of Fortune» - style game staged right in the middle of the action.

Supporters of spending for public defense for the poor came up with one way — a Wheel of Fortune - style game staged right in the middle of the action.

In the 2014 - 2015 budget, the agency was unable to guarantee money to any of the state's counties for public defense.

Not exact matches

VA Secretary David Shulkin said that there was a «public interest exception» for giving Cerner the contract without examining other bids, especially considering that the system would better be able to communicate with the Defense Department's EHR tech, which Cerner also worked on.

«We're still in the early stages of that program, but we're hoping that there will be results showing that this technology can make a real difference to public safety in a more cost - effective way, but also in a more effective way,» Ger Daly, Global Managing Director of Defense and Public Safety, Accenture, said in a report for CNBC's Innovation Cpublic safety in a more cost - effective way, but also in a more effective way,» Ger Daly, Global Managing Director of Defense and Public Safety, Accenture, said in a report for CNBC's Innovation CPublic Safety, Accenture, said in a report for CNBC's Innovation Cities.

VICE News made numerous email and telephone queries over the past month to spokespeople for the Army, the Navy, and the Department of Defense seeking comment on the Army Institute of Public Health study and the treatment of troops before and after their deployment to Guantanamo.

He has conducted public relations for Major League Soccer, the Department of Defense Warrior Games and the U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, among other clients; he's also worked, pro bono, in media relations supporting Puerto Rico's victims of Hurricane Maria.

Rebuilds our military by eliminating the defense sequester and expanding military investment; provides Veterans with the ability to receive public VA treatment or attend the private doctor of their choice; protects our vital infrastructure from cyber-attack; establishes new screening procedures for immigration to ensure those who are admitted to our country support our people and our values

Workforce participation data from Current Population Survey Public - Use Micro Data Files (2016), Department of Defense (2016), National Center for Health Statistics (2014), and Bureau of Justice Statistics (2015).

Everyone charged with a penal offense has the right to be presumed innocent until proved guilty according to law in a public trial at which he has had all the guarantees necessary for his defense.

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The Public Defender's Office has asked the court and the Broward Clerk of Courts to determine if Nikolas has assets that could pay for his legal defense.

Donations to legal defense funds for public officials usually are capped at a certain amount.

Flanked by his team of public defenders and over a half dozen Broward Sheriff's Office deputies, suspected Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz appeared in a Broward County courtroom Wednesday afternoon for a status hearing into whether he can afford to pay for his own defense.

Organizations that procure cybersecurity services are increasingly looking not just for private cloud - based approaches, but products that operate from public cloud environments, says Larry Hurtado, CEO of Digital Defense.

Prior to being appointed to that position by President Ronald Reagan in 1981, he was associated with Arthur Andersen & Co. for 25 years, except between 1967 and 1971, when he served as Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Financial Management, where his work earned him Distinguished Public Service Awards from both the Navy and the Department of Defense.

Few states have ever provided a more cogent explanation for any public policy, and none has ever furnished a more coherent defense of the ban against assisted suicide.

Gallagher, the President of the Institute for Marriage and Public Policy, is quite simply the most effective spokesperson making public arguments in defense of marriage Public Policy, is quite simply the most effective spokesperson making public arguments in defense of marriage public arguments in defense of marriage today.

And I have sought to show, using Hartshorne as a concrete example, how a dialectical defense provides the ultimate support for one's claims about experience and its essential temporality and how that dialectic rests on claims quite remote from any direct or straightforward reading of experience, whether private or public.

This is a fiscal worship by which Islam requires the well - to - do to care for the needs of the poor and to pay a subsidy to maintain public benefits like hospitals, educational institutions, and a defense force.

Church assemblies do indeed take positions on many public issues, frequently invoking Scripture as a defense for their viewpoint.

Incredible public displays of contempt for white opinion, in defense of the indefensible, and all with the tacit, if not explicit, support of much of mainstream black opinion.

My taxes pay for a lot of things that we take for granted, police officers, teachers, public schools, our highway systems and bridges, roads and light fixtures for our everyday usage and our countries defense by way of paying our men and women who are defending our lives right now both here and abroad.)

As for the «narrow public witness» against which John Murdock rightly cautions, I really don't think «prioritizing» equals «ignoring,» such that to prioritize the defense of religious freedom and the right to life excludes other issues from the Church's social witness and public policy advocacy.

Insofar as the need for defense provides just cause for public use of the sword, it comes from the responsibility of government to protect order, justice, and peace, not simply from the right to respond to an attacker in kind.

The conference was spearheaded by Michael Davidson, a man of God who came out of the homosexual life many years ago and heads up a group called Core Issues Trust («a non-profit Christian ministry supporting men and women with homosexual issues who voluntarily seek change in sexual preference and expression») and by Andrea Williams, dynamic barrister and CEO of Christian Concern (an organization that seeks to be «a strong Christian voice in the public sphere») and the Christian Legal Centre (a legal defense team for British Christians persecuted for their faith).

The defiance of the song was a defense, as many of his songs («Workin» Man Blues,» for instance) were — of those who were derided by the mainstream of society, like the «Okies» demonized in California, as, at best, a drag on the economy and, at worst, a threat to public safety.

She ran for Congress in 1952 and lost to a popular Democratic incumbent (she lost another congressional race under similar circumstances in 1970), but by then she was already a popular public speaker and formidable debater whose passions were unyielding anticommunism and a strong nuclear defense in the Cold War.

Morrison's modernist approach to religion in 1912, tinged by both cultural and religious anti-Catholicism, still had room for a spirited defense of Bible reading in public schools when the Supreme Court of Illinois banned the Bible from the classroom.

Combative on the platform in defense of any cause I cared for, I shrink from quarrel or disapproval in the house, and am a coward at heart in private while a good fighter in public.

Both groups like to claim that they are «disadvantaged» in the public square and victims of «cultural aggression,» but neither is lacking in resources for offense or defense.

What conservatives and libertarians are most animated about nowadays is the abuse of public - good authority, particularly as such authority has been misused for a very long time to tax and spend, not generally on public goods like defense but on wealth - transfer programs, such as social security, Medicare and Medicaid, and other entitlements — the kinds of programs, in other words, that have effectively bankrupted Greece, are threatening to bankrupt several other European nations, and are undermining the European Monetary Union.

Thirteen theses in defense of so - called heteronormativity and other supposed heresies, from a Christian and specifically Catholic perspective, for the purpose of public debate:

Thirteen theses in defense of so - called heteronormativity and other supposed heresies, from a Christian and specifically Catholic perspective, for the purpose of public debate: 1) Homo sapiens is a sexually dimorphic species that depends for its propagation and socialization on the complementary....

In what can only be described as a public relations disaster for Monsanto, the company has been forced to admit Wednesday that it financially supported the legal defense

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.

Speaking as a US parent, I believe the «disruptive» defense for putting kids «in their place» (as well as the «safety» bit - see mother and toddler kicked off a public transit bus for noise) are often mere red herring in a culture that, no matter what lip service it may pay to «what about the CHILDREN?!»

This source, from Israel's public broadcasting corporation (Hebrew), quotes an advisor at the Russian defense ministry, as saying that while Netanyahu asked for the delivery to be canceled, this was only a minor consideration in the decision.

One possible answer is that the government provides a framework that must be paid for but allows an individual to work: enforcement of contracts, public safety, national defense etc..

Testifying in his own defense, Halloran admitted taking the cash, but said he considered the money payment for consulting services and never procured any public funds for the real estate developers / FBI agents.

The case of the missing public bench at Trump Tower moved toward its conclusion yesterday with a hearing at which the city requested a $ 10,000 fine and a lawyer for Trump offered no defense.

The legislation requires regulations set up for debates involving candidates who accept public matching dollars as well as places limits on the use of public money for criminal defense and non-campaign related activities.