Sentences with phrase «public defender offices»

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.
In conjunction with Georgia State's Sociology, and Criminal Justice and Criminology departments, the center will work with public defender offices in Fulton and Dekalb counties to assess the nature and pervasiveness of civil legal issues facing those who enter the criminal justice system.
The battles over the funding of public defender offices continued — but the economic conditions would seem to preclude any easy solutions.
Staffed by the Immigrant Defense Project, the Immigrant Legal Resource Center, and the National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild, the Defending Immigrants Partnership collaborates with public defender offices and criminal defense organizations on behalf of noncitizens facing criminal charges.
Cody started his legal career with the Santa Barbara County Public Defenders Office as a criminal defense attorney.
• In most Public Defender offices, we do not have enough social workers and investigators to do a thorough job.
By working with Jurdem, LLC, you get the former Director of the Colorado Springs and Denver Public Defender Offices, Scott Jurdem, on your side.
The Bronx Defenders is one of the premier public defender offices in the United States.
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 Association.
In addition, the central public defender office puts on common training for all public defenders, salaried or contracted, to encourage standards and to build morale.
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.
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.
For his part, [Judge] Shelton says he gets no joy from his appointment powers and plans to study public defender offices in other cities.
Public defender offices now can generate reliable data that shows they are too overworked to provide effective assistance of counsel, he says.
Four years later, in 2007, the Bureau of Justice Statistics found that only about a quarter of county - based public defender offices reported having enough attorneys to handle their caseloads.
He continued his public service as a trial attorney in the Newark Public Defenders Office.
A licensed attorney in Boulder since 1976, Scott Jurdem has broad experience including serving as Director of the Denver and Colorado Springs Public Defender Offices.
As such, underfunded public defender offices raise serious constitutional — not to mention moral — questions.
Prior to co-founding Bernstein & Clarke, PLLC, Andrew was a public defender at The Legal Aid Society's Criminal Defense Practice — the world's oldest, largest, and most prestigious public defender office.
The Hinds County public defender office protested this blatant violation of the Sixth Amendment right to counsel and refused to acquiesce to continued demands that they abandon their clients.
Issue: The Court should allow a civil suit claiming Luzerne County's failure to fully fund the county public defender office amounts to a systemic denial of the constitutional right to effective counsel.
During law school, he clerked at various firms and the Ventura Public Defenders Office.
Placement in public defender office involving the representation of criminal defendants under the supervision of a licensed practicing attorney.
It is not uncommon today in New Mexico that Public Defender offices average a 50 % to 75 % win ratio or higher.
TRLA seeks an experienced, felony - qualified attorney for its Regional Public Defender offices in the Rio Grande Valley.
A rather heartening aspect of the Chilean system is that, although it depends upon the specification and monitoring of masses of data, an important role remains for managers within the central public defender office who have the role of ensuring that the system works well; individual lawyers are getting an appropriate balance of cases; and that allowance is made for any individual factors that explain statistical variance.
While at Georgetown Law, Mr. Rosenberg clerked at the DC Public Defenders Office and served as a litigation law clerk at The Cochran Firm.
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.
While Houston has a federal public defender office, there is no state or county counterpart such as exists in the well known public defender's office in Cook County Illinois (Chicago)(See Kevin Davis» Defending the Damned) or Brooklyn Defender Services popularized by David Feige's Indefensible.
Our attorneys are experienced defense lawyers and include the former director of the Colorado Springs and Denver Public Defender Offices.
Singleton shares his experience representing sex offenders while trying to keep the Ohio Justice Policy Center afloat, while career defender Steinberg talks about what led her to create the Bronx Defenders, one of the premier public defender offices in the country.
Our guests for this program are Bennett H. Brummer, public defender in charge of the Miami - Dade Public Defender Office, who has brought a -LSB-...]
In most Public Defenders offices, each attorney shares a secretary with a number of other attorneys.
The gift wrapping event was organized 25 years ago, and has become a holiday tradition for state parole officers, who have been joined by representatives from the Albany County Public Defenders Office, and area law firms such as Kindlon Shanks and Associates, and the Cheryl Coleman Law Office.
There are two public defenders offices in the area and some are scared they will metaphorically cross the metaphorical picket line.
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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.
It also gives their families something to look forward to this holiday season, when they may not have otherwise,» said Samantha E. Koolen, an attorney at the Albany County Public Defenders Office.
She has worked exclusively on Family Court cases in the Public Defenders office since 2009.
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.
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Im 40 years old and I work at the public defenders office.
I recently worked with a career counseling client who was offered a position with a public defender office.
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