Sentences with phrase «of public defender offices»

The battles over the funding of public defender offices continued — but the economic conditions would seem to preclude any easy solutions.

68 organizations from around the world working to exonerate unjustly convicted men and women, including independent nonprofits as well as organizations affiliated with law schools or other educational institutions, units of public defender offices, and pro bono sections of law firms.

Patrick McCann, president of the Harris County Criminal Lawyers Association, the county's largest defense bar, recently took a poll and the group's attorneys came out 2 - to - 1 in support of some kind of public defender office.

I started out of the public defenders office and then I went on and I did death penalty work for two years specifically.

It was an office facing the front desk on the main floor of the Public Defenders Office, where the legal office assistants work.

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...

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After the decision, the Baltimore office of the public defender began reviewing hundreds of cases which hinged on StingRay technology, all of which could potentially be challenged as a result of the Maryland court ruling.

Matt Gonzalez, chief attorney in the public defender's office (left) listens as defense attorney Francisco Ugarte addresses the press outside of the courtroom after Jose Ines Garcia Zarate was found not guilty.

Cruz requested a Bible, according to jail records released by the Broward Sheriff's Office, but it was denied because of the suicide watch, the public defender said.

The district partnered with the offices of the sheriff, state attorney, public defender, and chief judge, as well as the NAACP, to rethink its disciplinary policies.

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.

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.

Nikolas» assets are important because he is a client of the Broward Public Defender's Office, which is court - appointed to serve only the indigent.

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.

The state Ministry of Justice, while rendering its activities in the second quarter of the present administration, added that the state Citizen Mediation Centre, CMC and the Office of the Public Defender, OPD and the Directorate for Citizens Rights, DCR assisted residents of the state to recover over N309 million (N309, 943, 513), through debts settlement and compensations for clients in various matters.

Among other criminal justice issues raised by Hawkins and the Green Party candidates were: establishment of a statewide Public Defenders Office; legalization of marijuana; Broken Windows policy; justice for Eric Garner; raising the age of adult criminal responsibility to 18; banning solitary confinement; educational opportunities for prisoners; assistance to help ex-offenders find employment and housing; and alternatives to incarceration.

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The gifts and money raised to purchase the food baskets were made by PEF, parole officers, Albany County Public Defenders Office, the state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision staff, Kindlon Shanks and Associates, and the Cheryl Coleman Law Office.

The NYS Office of Indigent Legal Services would have awarded Monroe County's Public Defender's office the money but the County blocked the grant, saying they don't want to protect parents» interests at the expense of the child's well - Office of Indigent Legal Services would have awarded Monroe County's Public Defender's office the money but the County blocked the grant, saying they don't want to protect parents» interests at the expense of the child's well - office the money but the County blocked the grant, saying they don't want to protect parents» interests at the expense of the child's well - being.

Herrick will take over a public defender's office that has been run of late by senior counsel Terry Kindlon, whom the judge has known for decades.

With the defendants indicted, the action in Clean Sweep moved to the Ulster County Courthouse where the sudden influx of drug cases strained the resources of the district attorney's and the public defender's offices.

Kindlon, as Law Beat previously reported, has overhauled the office with new assignments and roles for attorneys, right down to transforming the former media room on the first - floor of the judicial center to an office where public defenders can meet their clients.

Griffin worked as a senior assistant prosecutor in the Rockland County District attorney's Office from 1981 to 1986, worked in private practice later on, and received a full - time job with the Rockland County Office of the Public Defender in 2010.

Personal Info Birthplace: Staten Island, NY High School: Brooklyn Tech High School (public - requires entrance exam) Higher Education: SUNY New Paltz, University of Buffalo Law School NY19 Connection: Attended SUNY New Paltz, 1970 - 1974; Returned to live in Kingston in 1981 and thereafter moved to Woodstock where he has resided through today Length of Residency in NY19: Kingston, NY and Woodstock, NY since 1983; greater than 34 years Prior Job History: Served as a Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA) Volunteer working with Native American tribes in Nebraska, Western Nebraska Legal Services attorney between 1977 - 1980; Ulster County Public Defender's Office in the 1980s and early 1990s, Law Offices of Dave Clegg practicing predominantly personal injury law and elder abuse cases until prpublic - requires entrance exam) Higher Education: SUNY New Paltz, University of Buffalo Law School NY19 Connection: Attended SUNY New Paltz, 1970 - 1974; Returned to live in Kingston in 1981 and thereafter moved to Woodstock where he has resided through today Length of Residency in NY19: Kingston, NY and Woodstock, NY since 1983; greater than 34 years Prior Job History: Served as a Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA) Volunteer working with Native American tribes in Nebraska, Western Nebraska Legal Services attorney between 1977 - 1980; Ulster County Public Defender's Office in the 1980s and early 1990s, Law Offices of Dave Clegg practicing predominantly personal injury law and elder abuse cases until prPublic Defender's Office in the 1980s and early 1990s, Law Offices of Dave Clegg practicing predominantly personal injury law and elder abuse cases until present.

«And under Eric Schneiderman — also a party to this deal — the New York AG's office has become the staunchest defender of the public interest in the nation.

The Office of the Oneida County Public Defender - Civil Division shall represent without charge any indigent individual entitled to and who is financially unable to obtain counsel in certain proceedings before the Oneida County Family Court and the Oneida County Surrogate's Court.

The Attorneys and Support Staff of the Public Defender - Civil Division provide representation and service before the Oneida County Family Court, which sits in the Utica Courthouse, 200 Elizabeth Street and the Rome Court Facility, 301 W. Dominick Street, and the Oneida County Surrogate's Court, which sits in the County Office Building, 8th Floor, 800 Park Avenue.

The gifts and money raised to purchase the food baskets were made by PEF, parole officers, Albany County's Public Defenders Office and Alternative Defenders Office, the state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision staff and Kindlon Shanks and Associates.

Update: After original publication of its report, the Public Committee Against Torture in Israel released an amended version, acknowledging that the information from the Public Defender's Office about child prisoners being kept in cages did not refer specifically to Palestinians.

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.

When state Supreme Court Justice Joseph Teresi of the Third Judicial District retired from his second 14 - year term half way through on June 26, the Albany Democrat and former public defender set up a race that's pitting his fellow Albany Law School alumni, Democratic Albany County legislator and private attorney Justin Corcoran, against Greene County - based Republican Lisa M. Fisher, an attorney with the Ulster County Public Defender's opublic defender set up a race that's pitting his fellow Albany Law School alumni, Democratic Albany County legislator and private attorney Justin Corcoran, against Greene County - based Republican Lisa M. Fisher, an attorney with the Ulster County Public Defender'sdefender set up a race that's pitting his fellow Albany Law School alumni, Democratic Albany County legislator and private attorney Justin Corcoran, against Greene County - based Republican Lisa M. Fisher, an attorney with the Ulster County Public Defender's oPublic Defender'sDefender's office.

SERAP urged Malami to use his «good offices as a defender of public interest» to urgently institute appropriate legal actions to challenge the legality of states» laws permitting former governors, who are now senators and ministers to enjoy governors» emoluments while drawing normal salaries and allowances in their new political offices.»

The lawyer representing Mr. Kope, John Voorhees of the Wisconsin State Public Defender's Rhinelander office, said he...

Jon is a former public defender at New York's Legal Aid Society, as well as a former Senior Civil Rights Attorney at the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights (OCR).

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).

She graduated from the University of Missouri - Kansas City school of law in 1998 and worked for the Public Defender's Office for several years before striking out on her own.

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.

Every attorney employed by the Alternate Public Defender's office is an employee of Washoe County.

In law school she served as a Summer Honors Law Clerk for the California Attorney General's Office, working in the field of Energy and Corporate Compliance, in addition to externships with the Marin County Public Defender's Office and the San Francisco District Attorney's Office.

During his last year at UDSL, Mick served clients in the courtroom as a licensed extern at the Office of the Federal Public Defender for the Southern District of Ohio.

He began his career in indigent defense with the Office of the Public Defender for the 17th Judicial Circuit (Broward County) Florida.

Before coming to MLSA, she spent two years advocating for indigent clients with the Montana Office of the Public Defender in Anaconda, MT.

Uganda, unlike other countries, does not have an office of a Public Defender, this means in other matters that are not punishable by the Death sentence, one is not entitled to a Lawyer provided for by the state.

In law school, Ms. Simon interned in public defenders offices at both the county and state level in law school, and after graduating she spent one year as a research and writing attorney with the Federal Defenders defenders offices at both the county and state level in law school, and after graduating she spent one year as a research and writing attorney with the Federal Defenders Defenders of Idaho.

Death Penalty Practicum: Students work with the Office of the Public Defender or with other highly qualified death penalty attorneys who are litigating capital cases.

Prior to joining Kazan Law, Mr. Greenwood spent eight (8) years as a Trial Attorney in the San Francisco Public Defenders Office, defending the rights of those accused of criminal offenses.

Federal public defender offices across the country have experienced serious staff reductions despite a workload that represents about 60 % of the criminal defendants in the federal court system.

From 2005 through 2016 Lou worked for Montana's Area Agencies on Aging, through the DPHHS Legal Service Developer where he specialized in Elder Law, and he also contracted a diverse caseload with the Office of the Public Defender.

In 1979, having just left the Illinois Office of the Public Defender to open his own practice, Sam L. Amirante was retained to defend John Wayne Gacy, who was charged with the horrific murders of 33 teenage boys and young men.

Our guests for this program are Bennett H. Brummer, public defender in charge of the Miami - Dade Public Defender Office, who has brought a lawsuit seeking to send more cases to outside private lawyers, and David Carroll, director of research for the National Legal Aid & Defender Associpublic defender in charge of the Miami - Dade Public Defender Office, who has brought a lawsuit seeking to send more cases to outside private lawyers, and David Carroll, director of research for the National Legal Aid & Defender Assodefender in charge of the Miami - Dade Public Defender Office, who has brought a lawsuit seeking to send more cases to outside private lawyers, and David Carroll, director of research for the National Legal Aid & Defender AssociPublic Defender Office, who has brought a lawsuit seeking to send more cases to outside private lawyers, and David Carroll, director of research for the National Legal Aid & Defender AssoDefender Office, who has brought a lawsuit seeking to send more cases to outside private lawyers, and David Carroll, director of research for the National Legal Aid & Defender AssoDefender Association.