Sentences with phrase «local indigent»

June 21, 2016 — «Louisiana will rework how it spends the money it allocates to defending the poor, to ensure two - thirds of it flows to local indigent defenders, under a new law signed by Gov. John Bel Edwards.

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.

In Hurrell - Harring, the New York Civil Liberties Union sued on behalf of 20 indigent defendants, arguing that the state's failure to adequately fund or oversee their local indigent defense offices violated their Sixth Amendment rights by leaving them with extremely poor representation.

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»

As well as being the first time in recent memory that meals have been made from scratch in D.C. Public Schools, the program represents the culmination of innovative efforts by D.C. Central Kitchen to build a successful economic model around concepts that don't normally associate in the public mind: local farming, job training for the down - and - out, and feeding the indigent.

While it doesn't look like comprehensive mandate relief is in the cards this year, local municipalities notched a big victory with the passage of a bill that will entirely shift payment for indigent legal services from the counties to the state by 2022.

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 governor also needs to be mindful of the costs for local governments, who are growing increasingly vocal about mandate relief, including when it comes to indigent defense and Medicaid.

Local police have received no formal complaints about Terrill's use of the robot (although homeless advocates reportedly claim the contraption is being used to intimidate indigents in the vicinity).

In the meantime, the people of Belfast go on with their lives, trapping lobsters, canning fish, making doughnuts, teaching school, handling court cases, helping the poor and indigent, staging a local production of Death of a Salesman, celebrating holidays, and trying to make the most of their evenings and weekends.

§ 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

(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»

The veterinary curriculum at the University of Florida is unique in that students gain their surgical skills through service learning, during which they spay and neuter pets for local rescue groups and a clinic for indigent pet owners.

The local federal court frequently calls upon us to represent indigent persons in these kinds of cases.

apply for public assistance medical treatment through an organization like the Colorado Indigent Care Program (contact your local hospital for information on CICP).

Most indigent defense funding, although it might be insufficient, is directly appropriated from local or state government budgets and therefore more stable.

Our lawyers collaborate with local and regional legal services organizations on a host of projects, including: representing victims of domestic violence at final hearings on protective orders; staffing and operating walk - in clinics for indigent clients; handling intake of new clients for organizations; and training volunteers to handle cases in areas such as immigration, asylum, elder law, domestic violence and family law.

The bill by Rep. Sherman Mack, R - Albany, requires the Louisiana Public Defender Board to dedicate at least 65 percent of its annual financing to local defenders of the indigent, which have been struggling with financial shortfalls.»

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 barista at my local Starbucks who thought about going to law school one time was getting ready to launch a legal tech company that focused on A.I. indigent defense via crowdsourcing along the blockchain,» said Keith Lee.

Support from the Indigent Defense Commission is done through cost sharing with local governments, and grants awarded by the commission are carefully administered, Landau told the Executive Offices and Criminal Justice Appropriations Subcommittee on Monday.

In capital cases, state systems for affording representation to indigent defendants vary from adequate to meager.2 In civil cases, the combined legal services spending of U. S. local, state, and federal government agencies is, per capita, far below that of the governments of other democracies.

The Ferguson reform plan is a reminder of how far state and local courts have strayed from the law in this area, and it provides a clear route to restoring lost justice for the indigent.