Sentences with phrase «local public defender»

After graduation from the University of Oregon School of Law, where he tried his first case as a student with the local Public Defender, he was awarded a judicial clerkship with a state trial court judge.

If you can't afford a criminal defense lawyer, the state will appoint you one, usually from the local Public Defender's Office.

Since 2013, the department has filed at least five statements of interest and at least two amicus briefs in lawsuits that argued that local public defender funding is inadequate.

For example, a lawyer can work for the local public defender's office and have some of his or her loans paid for by the state.

He has had some difficulty with the local public defender's office, which came to the aid of a problem tenant whose lease Edgebrook refused to renew.

Bill supporters say the local public defenders need the money and too much money is spent on capital defense cases by the board.

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»

Filed Under: Local News Tagged With: Andrew Cuomo, Andy Goodell, Cathy Young, Chautauqua County Clerk, Chautauqua County Legislature, Chautauqua County Public Defenders Office, Chautauqua County Sheriffs Office, Dave Wilfong, Fred Larson, Governor of New York State, Jay Gould, Lisa Vanstrom, Ned Barone, New York State Association of Counties, New York State Police, Ron Lemon, SAFE Act

Zimet was nominated by Andy Kossover, a local attorney and the Ulster County public defender.

Veteran local defense attorney Terence L. Kindlon is coming out of retirement — just two months into it — to take a role in the Albany County public defender's office where he will help train lawyers.

Filed Under: Local News Tagged With: 2018 County Budget, Cattaraugus County Sheriff's Office, Chautauqua County District Attorneys Office, Chautauqua County Legislature, Chautauqua County Public Defenders Office, Vince Horrigan

«Down here you make enemies for life,» spits the young public defender who's muffed Dee's case, bristling at the questions of her ACLU attorney (Tim Blake Nelson) and the conflicted local lawyer who's signed on to represent her (Will Patton, in the film's best performance).

To counter the manpower advantage held by defenders of traditional public education such as the NEA and AFT, school reformers — especially Beltway - based players — need to be working the community centers, church pews, and the extensive local networks.

Adds representatives of a county district attorney's office and county public defender's office to both county and local School Attendance Review Boards (SARBs).

Some qualified public service employees are public defenders; correctional officers; law enforcement employees; and government employees of all levels (local, state, federal, etc..)

John R. Justice (JRJ) FY 2014 Program Application Guidance Application Deadline: 04/14/2014, 08:00 PM The JRJ Grant Program provides loan repayment assistance for local, state, and federal public defenders and local and state prosecutors who commit to continued employment as public defenders and prosecutors.

John R. Justice FY 2013 Program Application Guidance Application Deadline: 07/08/2013, 08:00 PM The John R. Justice (JRJ) Grant Program provides loan repayment assistance for local, state, and federal public defenders and local and state prosecutors who commit to continued employment as public defenders and prosecutors for at least three years.

(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»

This program provides loan repayment assistance for local, state, and federal public defenders and local and state prosecutors who commit to continued employment as public defenders and prosecutors.

John R. Justice FY 2012 Program Application Guidance Application Deadline: 04/26/2012, 07:59 PM This program provides loan repayment assistance for local, state, and federal public defenders and local and state prosecutors who commit to continued employment as public defenders and prosecutors for at least three years.

John R. Justice (JRJ) FY 2017 Competitive Grant Program Application Deadline: 07/18/2017, 11:59 PM BJA is seeking applications for the John R. Justice (JRJ) Grant Program, which provides loan repayment assistance for local, state, and federal public defenders and local and state prosecutors who commit to continued employment as public defenders and prosecutors.

To counter criticism of the business community from college campuses, business organizations such as the Chamber of Commerce should support scholars who will defend the free enterprise system, develop speakers and support speakers» bureaus that will counter the liberal rhetoric coming from college campuses, subject textbooks to ideological review, insist on equal time for speakers exposing the views of the business community for speakers on campuses, insist that college faculties be balanced by those who will defend the free enterprise system, request that graduate schools of business include courses that support the free enterprise system, encourage local chambers of commerce to provide the views of the business community in high schools, establish staff who work with the media to communicate to the general public the views of the business community, monitor and criticize television programs that unfairly criticize the free enterprise system and where appropriate file complaints with the Federal Communications Commission, monitor radio and other media and pressure them to cover the views of defenders of the free enterprise system, support scholars who support the free enterprise system to publish in scholarly journals, establish incentives for scholars to publish defenses of free enterprise in books, papers, and pamphlets, spend more money on advertising that expressly supports the free market system.

These researchers might explore the writing practices of local communities of public defenders or prosecutors, large - firm civil litigators, or networks of sole practitioners.

Consider the budget - driven approach taken by two local Kentucky lawyers, Public Defender David Barron and state attorney, Jeff Middendorf, who played key roles in Supreme Court case Baze v. Rees, that addresses whether Kentucky's lethal injection drug protocol amounts to cruel and unusual punishment in violation of the Eighth Amendment.

He practiced criminal law at the Norfolk Public Defender's Office and a local private firm before joining Cooper Hurley and has extensive in - court litigation experience.

They represent Fortune 500 companies and start - up entrepreneurs in key industry and business sectors; have backgrounds as businesswomen, prosecutors and public defenders; teach graduate - level classes in legal issues; and are leaders and members of almost 20 bar associations at the local, state and national levels.

In collaboration with numerous local organizations, including the Knoxville Bar Association, Knoxville Barristers, Legal Aid of East Tennessee, the Knox County Public Defender's Office, and the University of Tennessee College of Law, London & Amburn attorney Spencer Fair has established a monthly Veterans Legal Clinic to serve the Knoxville community.

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.

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.»

Whether it is by acting as legal counsel; helping to secure positive and fair change in the laws and policies of our local, state and federal governments; or acting as advocate and a steadfast ally to those without the ability to protect themselves, Stuart, Mona, Amelia, Peggy, and Bennett and the Public Defender's Office of the 11th Judicial Circuit of Florida are true champions for equal justice.

February 7, 2017 — «U.S. Sen. Cory Booker (D - NJ) and U.S. Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney (NY - 18) are renewing a bicameral effort to fix America's strained public defender system from local courts all the way to the Supreme Court.

February 6, 2017 — «The City of Atlanta's office of the public defender has been chosen to join the Safety and Justice Challenge, a grant program awarded by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation to create a more fair and effective local justice system and model reforms for the nation, the city announced.

U.S. Sen. Cory Booker (D - NJ) and U.S. Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney (NY - 18) are renewing a bicameral effort to fix America's strained public defender system from local courts all the way to the Supreme Court.

A professional bar association founded in 1958, NACDL's approximately 9,200 direct members in 28 countries - and 90 state, provincial and local affiliate organizations totaling up to 40,000 attorneys — include private criminal defense lawyers, public defenders, active U.S. military defense counsel, law professors and judges committed to preserving fairness within America's criminal justice system.