Sentences with word «indigent»

In 2014, the state settled a lawsuit by agreeing to pay the full cost of indigent defense in just five counties, including Onondaga County.

Yesterday was the 46th anniversary of Gideon v. Wainwright, the Supreme Court's 1963 decision holding that states have a constitutional obligation to provide court - appointed lawyers for indigent criminal defendants.

«The legislation is in response to new guidelines released by the state's Office of Indigent Legal Defense that drastically increase the number of criminal defendants who would qualify for a free public defender by doubling the income cutoff from 125 percent of the federal poverty threshold to 250 percent.

Attorneys assigned to the Law Office of the Cook County Public Defender's Felony Trial Division represent indigent defendants in 34 courtrooms that take in cases from the City of Chicago.

July 22, 2016 — «Governor Charlie Baker on Thursday signed a supplemental budget with money for private attorneys who represent indigent clients in criminal and some civil litigation, including guardianships, classifications by the Sex Offender Registry, and children in need of services in juvenile courts.

The crowd, gathered at a Washington hotel to honor voluntary free legal services for indigent criminal and terror suspects, burst into applause when Holder defended his attorneys.

He previously helped secure representation for indigent clients as a Pro Bono Attorney for Catholic Charities Legal Network of the Archdiocese of Washington.

The state Association of Counties is urging state lawmakers and Gov. Andrew Cuomo to agree to a budget that includes the state assuming partial cost of indigent legal defense services.

Members of the Federal Defenders team share a commitment to excellence and a passion for justice in representing indigent people accused of myriad federal criminal offenses.

Berger's report also recommended changing the flow of indigent care pool dollars and called for capital grants, which would provide hospitals tools to increase revenue but the restructuring dominated the discussion.

Not only is the «actual imprisonment» standard unprecedented as the exclusive test, but also the problems inherent in its application demonstrate the superiority of an «authorized imprisonment» standard that would require the appointment of counsel for indigents accused of any offense for which imprisonment for any time is authorized.

Maine HB 451 Grants emergency approval to changes to Eligibility Requirements for Specialized Case Types, as provisionally adopted by Maine Commission on Indigent Legal Service.

And hospitals write off far less for ER services if attorneys help indigent patient secure Medicaid.

After law school, he worked as a volunteer attorney for the Marin County Public Defender's Office where gained extensive courtroom experience helping indigent people facing jail - time as well as helping undocumented clients avoid immigration consequences in a county that cooperated with ICE.

Following are items we constantly use for shelter pets or pets in indigent program:

«As an association representing the legal profession, we are pleased that state policymakers recognized that providing indigent defense services is a societal obligation that should be paid for out of the state's General Fund and rejected a proposal to partly pay for those services with a $ 50 increase in the biennial attorney registration fee, which would have been an unfair surcharge on lawyers,» Gutekunst said.

[5] In addition to appointing lawyers to serve as counsel for indigent parties in individual cases, a judge may promote broader access to justice by encouraging lawyers to participate in pro bono publico legal services, if in doing so the judge does not employ coercion, or abuse the prestige of judicial office.

While at Widener, Carl interned at the State Attorney's Office assisting deputy attorney generals in the prosecution of those charged with criminal offenses and also represented indigent individuals with family law matters for a non-profit organization.

A bill that would have required the state to cover the costs of providing legal services for indigent populations has been vetoed by Governor Andrew Cuomo.

How did we evolve from indigent apes with no possessions into hoarding humans with more stuff than we can track?

Among the highlights was the passage of an amended resolution that would continue the Chautauqua County Pilot Program within Jamestown City Court to assist indigent defendants at arraignment.

«Under the proposed rule, the court would create a voluntary panel of attorneys who are willing to represent indigent litigants, as well as an obligatory panel that would be used when there are insufficient resources available from the voluntary panel.»

I have personally given money to help burn victims, children who lost parents in auto accidents, provided free funerals so indigent families can have respectful place to bury their dead.

If you can not afford to pay the fee, you must file an Application for Determination of Civil Indigent Status, to ask the clerk to file your case without payment of the fee.

In 1979, New York state passed a law that required counties to pay for indigent burial services.

Before relocating to Georgia, she had a diverse public interest practice representing indigent children in welfare matters and resolving labor disputes, the brief says.

The New York Infirmary for Indigent Women & Children was opened on May 12, 1857 by Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell, who was born in 1821 in Bristol, England and is credited with being the first female to receive a medical degree in the United States.

Spay / neuter, rescue, rehabilitation, adoption, education, pet food and supplies for needy pet owners, financial support for indigent pet owners, doing all of it while working cooperatively with shelters, other rescue groups, veterinarians, everybody!

The Child Protection Clinic: A Mixed Method Evaluation of Parent Legal Representation Haight, Marshall & Woolman (2015) Children and Youth Services Review, 56 Evaluates a law school clinic that provides indigent parents with legal representation by law students supervised by experienced attorneys.

For more than 15 years, Mr. Vertz has served indigent clients as a volunteer lawyer for Neighborhood Legal Services in the downtown Pittsburgh family law clinic, as well as the Adoption Legal Services Project, Family Division Pro Se Motions Court, Allegheny County Bar Fellows and Attorneys Against Hunger.

His extensive pro bono work has ranged from ensuring indigent civil litigants the right to counsel in Colorado to litigating cases involving discrimination claims and constitutional issues.

The State Bar Association strongly supported this bill, consistent with its long - standing priority to have the State meet its constitutional obligation by adequately funding quality indigent criminal defense services.

Sen. Brownsberger spoke to his personal experience as a member of the private bar who accepted indigent cases and the difficulties attorneys face, including the lack of trust clients have for most public and private assigned counsel when their they are first assigned.

Innocence Texas provides free, first - class investigative and legal services to indigent prisoners serving time for crimes they did not commit.

«Massachusetts has one of the most liberal statutes with respect to the availability of public funds with which indigent defendants can hire experts.

Third, BDS serves as assigned counsel under the New York Immigrant Family Unity Project — a first - in - the - nation program that provides legal representation for indigent New Yorkers in detained removal proceedings at the Varick Street Immigration Court and in non-detained removal proceedings if our efforts result in the clients» release.

«These states took the responsible first step to save their residents from a retirement crisis defined by low coverage and inadequate savings and protect their taxpayers from the fiscal crisis resulting from millions of indigent elderly.

Somide disclosed that 125 students were admitted but only 123 of them have commenced training at the College which includes indigent students, who are beneficiaries of the scholarship provided by the Kwara State Government and drawn from the 16 local governments (LGs) of the state.

The data was a «game - changer,» Hanlon says, in the Missouri State Public Defender Commission's relationship with the state legislature, which hadn't increased indigent defense funding in years.

She pointed to four measures that long have been Association legislative priorities and that NYSBA leaders and staff have consistently lobbied legislators to adopt: combating wrongful conviction; raising the age of criminal responsibility from 16 to 18; a commitment to improving indigent criminal defense services; and sealing certain criminal records.

For more background on the Disproportionate Share Hospital program and other indigent care funding in New York State, see «Medicaid Supplemental Payments: The Alphabet Soup of Programs Sustaining Ailing Hospitals Faces Risks and Needs Reform,» Citizens Budget Commission, August 31, 2017.

The proposal by Rep. Sherman Mack, an Albany Republican, would require at least 65 percent of the state public defender board's financing to flow to local indigent defenders.

-- Is this a needy client [needy as in clingy, not indigent]?