May 31, 2008

MN: the layoffs are coming

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From In-Forum News: Clay lawyer cuts coming Confronted with a potential $4.7 million deficit, the Minnesota Board of Public Defense will tur...
May 30, 2008

WA: Grant County - the saga continues

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The Ephrata / Soap Lake / Moses Lake p.d. crisis has gone away, but the lawsuit that fixed it hasn't. From the Columbia Basin Herald: A...
May 29, 2008

KY: short-change DPA now, pay later

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Seems to be a lot of legislative false economizing going on nationwide. From Kentucky.com: Chief public defender takes case to judges - ask...
May 28, 2008

AK: "most of the people I contact aren't big readers"

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One cool public defender investigator , from Oregonlive.com: Alaska's mystery man John Straley works as an investigator for the Alaska ...
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May 27, 2008

Deputy public defender monkey

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A travelling sock monkey on Minnesota's p. d. crisis: Monkey and I both agreed that the state needed to add more public defenders. Monk...
May 22, 2008

WA: acting weird - now constitutionally protected in Washington State

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See what a little motion to suppress can do. From the Olympian: WA court: Police pat-downs can't be based on odd behavior In another nod...
May 21, 2008

MN: penny wise, pound foolish

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From Minnesota Lawyer Blog: Public defenders face losing 61 more lawyers The public defenders in Minnesota have been hit hard by the Legisl...
May 20, 2008

Sweet home Idaho

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Today when I found the website of Federal Defender Services of Idaho and watched the pretty pictures scrolling by, I swear I got a little h...
May 19, 2008

IL: "they reconciled their differences"

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The p.d. news today concerns Cook County chief public defender Edwin Burnette . From the Cook County Public Defender Blog: Rumors of his Dem...
May 18, 2008

"Neither Officer Friendly nor Officer Hardass"

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From Police Link: Not just kid stuff: Handling juveniles on patrol (Y)our interaction with juvenile subjects will have repercussions for fu...

One hop

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There's a rabbit warren in the bushes next to juvenile detention. Tonight one of the younger bunnies was there for debriefing after I...
May 15, 2008

CA: Sacto Sisyphus

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From the Sacramento News and Review: Guilty till proven innocent - Head Sacramento County public defender says the justice system is broken...
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NM: enough with the physical attacks on p.d.'s, now

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From KOAT, Albuquerque: Public Defenders Assaulted At MDC Two members of the public defender's office are recovering at home Thursday ni...
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May 14, 2008

"The hardest step - the rest is cake"

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A post that really reached me, from Doubtslinger : As a public defender, you quickly learn to celebrate even the smallest of things. Today w...
May 13, 2008

A fistful of Faretta

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From Minnesota Law Blog: Public defender heroism in St. Louis County It turns out we had a hero in our midst and most of us didn’t realize i...
May 10, 2008

ID: supreme Sarah Johnson smackdown

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Heckling during oral argument, in front of the state Supremes, perhaps from the state Supremes, reported by Cassidy Friedman by the Times-N...
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