Sentences with phrase «indigent criminal»

I have found Jamison to be a gifted trial attorney and an outstanding mentor... While I had prior experience in the field of indigent criminal defense, the transition to the Defender Association was a difficult one with a surprisingly steep learning curve.

I even have my doubts as to whether Justice Nordheimer's reasons will stand up on appeal — I'm not sure the appellate courts will want to force the expenditure of public funds on not - quite - desperately - indigent criminal accused.

After years of what critics say was under - funding legal aid for New York's lowest income people, the Senate and Assembly passed a bill in 2016 to create a state funded system to ensure that indigent criminal defendants receive legal representation, as is their right under the U.S. Constitution.

Cuomo's proposal calls for the new $ 50 charge on lawyers to go directly toward paying for legal representation of indigent criminal defendants, as required under the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark 1963 ruling in Gideon v. Wainwright.»

Ms. Landau is highly qualified, and brings her experience as a public defender with the Salt Lake Legal Defenders Association, where she worked for several years representing indigent criminal defendants on appeal to the Utah Supreme Court and Utah Court of Appeals.

To fulfill that obligation, the legislation tasks the Commission with many duties, including the development of guiding principles to assess and oversee indigent criminal defense services in the state, and using legislatively - appropriated funds to make grants to local governments to assist them in providing constitutional indigent defense services.

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.

In 2016, both houses of the Legislature passed a bill that would have phased in full State funding of indigent criminal defense services across the state.

«The New York State Bar Association calls upon the Governor and the Assembly to join with the Senate in adopting a bill to adequately fund indigent criminal legal defense services statewide without increasing the biennial attorney registration fee.

NYS BAR ASSOCIATION CALLS FOR FULL FUNDING OF INDIGENT CRIMINAL LEGAL SERVICES WITHOUT SURCHARGE ON LAWYERS Friday March 17, 2017 at 12:34 pm

The 1963 Legislature established the office of Public Defender in each circuit to defend indigent criminal defendants in all but a small number of minor matters.

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.

Personally, if I'd been on the law firms» pro bono committees, I wouldn't have chosen to represent detainees when there are so many far more compelling, but less sexy cases (such as defense of indigent criminal defendants accused of capital crimes at the trial level rather than up at the Supreme Court, for starters) where litigants desperately need representation.

As part of the 2017 - 18 state budget process, the State Bar continues to support creation of a state - funded system to ensure that indigent criminal defendants receive effective legal representation as required by the U.S. Constitution.

«Providing indigent criminal defense is a constitutional mandate.

In addition to her other client work, Ms Spillane represents indigent criminal defendants on a pro bono basis in a variety of state and federal matters.

Read the Daytona Beach News - Journal article titled «Level playing field in civil justice system» published December 1, 2014 «Access to justice is often viewed as an issue relating solely to indigent criminal defendants — the landmark case of Gideon v. Wainwright (1963) held that the Sixth Amendment's guarantee of legal counsel is a fundamental right essential... Read More

One of Volokh's commenters viewed the judge's comments differently, as an expression of frustation that hundreds of other indigent criminal defendants charged with crimes don't attract the same interest and support from law professors.

The Project identifies and advocates best practices in the indigent criminal justice system.

«Gideon Speaks, named after the landmark Supreme Court case which requires that counsel be provided for all indigent criminal defendants is a marriage of my love of the law and writing and discusses issues related to criminal and civil rights law in NYC.

Melissa has also served as an Assistant Public Defender in Broward County where she represented indigent criminal defendants charged in a variety of cases ranging from misdemeanors to first degree felonies.

Held: The Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments require that no indigent criminal defendant be sentenced to a term of imprisonment unless the State has afforded him the right to assistance of appointed counsel in his defense, but do not require a state trial court to appoint counsel for a criminal defendant, such as petitioner, who is charged with a statutory offense for which imprisonment upon conviction is authorized but not imposed.

Supreme Court of Virginia, Ninth Annual Indigent Criminal Defense Advanced Skills for the Experienced Practitioner, Field Tests, the EC / IR - II and You, 2013

and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution require only that no indigent criminal defendant be sentenced to a term of imprisonment unless the State has afforded him the right to assistance of appointed counsel in his defense.

Assessing the Civil Legal Needs of Indigent Criminal Defendants - Lauren Sudeall Lucas, Georgia State University College of Law; Ruth Richardson, Georgia State University

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.

After years of what critics say was underfunding legal aid for New York's lowest income people, the Senate and Assembly passed a bill in 2016 to create a state - funded system to ensure that indigent criminal defendants receive legal representation, as is their right under the U.S. Constitution.

«This bill would do little more than transfer to the taxpayers of this state an entirely new obligation to pay for any and all existing expenses related to general defense legal work, far beyond legal representation of indigent criminal defendants,» Cuomo wrote.

In 2016, both houses of the Legislature passed a bill that would have phased in full State funding of indigent criminal defense services across the state.

«Despite improvement in some geographic areas, our indigent criminal defense system still relies on overworked and underfunded defense attorneys.»

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.

At a joint press conference earlier this year, DeFrancisco and Fahy were joined by other lawmakers, Miranda and officials of the state Association of Counties, who all support state financing of indigent criminal services.

I understand that the detainees» plight raises significant constitutional questions, but so too do the dozens of cases involving indigent criminals arrested on false warrants or deprived of effective assistance of counsel or forced to confess.

Not exact matches

(For public defenders) Be either full - time employees of a state or unit of local government (including tribal government) or full - time employees of a nonprofit organization operating under a contract with a state or unit of local government, who «provide legal representation to indigent persons in criminal or juvenile delinquency cases»

At a City Council hearing on criminal discovery practices in February chaired by Queens councilman Rory Lancman, Sergio de la Pava, a supervising attorney for New York County Defender Services who has been representing indigent defendants in Manhattan for over 20 years, described a typical experience in the borough's courtrooms: After waiting six months or a year for trial, he said, «The DA comes in with a cart and drops about six inches of material on your desk.

McCoy cited his work to improve indigent defense to bring fairness to the criminal justice system.

Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo plans to ask the New York State Legislature to eliminate cash bail for many crimes and to speed up the disclosure of evidence in trials as part of a package of proposals intended make the criminal justice system fairer for indigent defendants, his aides said.

This week the two discuss the financials of criminal defense, and in particular the defense of the indigent.

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.

In his State of the State speech, Cuomo plans to ask the state Legislature to eliminate cash bail for many crimes and to speed up the disclosure of evidence in trials as part of a package of proposals intended make the criminal justice system fairer for indigent defendants, his aides said.

Cuomo's criminal justice plan includes an expansion of indigent legal services (after his recent veto of a legislative proposal to do the same) and a public - private partnership to provide legal representation to immigrants who struggle to hire an attorney, regardless of their citizenship status.

But look, I feel equally strongly on the criminal side of the ledger, where 50 years after Gideon (v. Wainwright), criminal indigent representation for the poor is very uneven in New York and around the country.

Truth be told, the only thing Colin was guilty of was being born poor and black in the inner - city, which meant he was very vulnerable to a criminal justice system totally indifferent to the plight of an innocent, indigent, African - American defendant.

Criminal justice, transportation, recreation, indigent care, economic development, commercial regulation, and even public safety are not privileged to the same degree.

§ a full - time employee of the state of Michigan or unit of local government (including tribal government) who provides legal representation to indigent persons in criminal or juvenile delinquency cases, or

§ a full - time employee of the state of Louisiana or unit of local government (including tribal government) who provides legal representation to indigent persons in criminal or juvenile delinquency cases, or

§ a full - time employee of an nonprofit organization operating under a contract with Illinois or unit of local government who devotes substantially all of the employee's full - time employment to providing legal representation to indigent persons in criminal or juvenile cases, or

§ a full - time employee of the state of Illinois or unit of local government (including tribal government) who provides legal representation to indigent persons in criminal or juvenile delinquency cases, or

§ a full - time employee of an nonprofit organization operating under a contract with Michigan or unit of local government who devotes substantially all of the employee's full - time employment to providing legal representation to indigent persons in criminal or juvenile cases, or

• A state or unit of local government that prosecutes criminal or juvenile delinquency cases • A state or unit of local government that provides legal representation to indigent persons in criminal or juvenile delinquency cases • A nonprofit organization operating under a contract or unit of local government that devotes substantially all of the employee's full - time employment to providing legal representation to indigent persons in criminal or juvenile cases • A defender organization that provides legal representation to indigent persons in criminal or juvenile delinquency cases