November 30, 2008

A budget-balancing proposal

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From your friends at Kansas Defenders : If the state doesn't want to pay for indigent defense, it needs to prosecute fewer people (or at...

Purissima Olympia

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We three went downtown today to admire the singing Christmas tree . This is the only holiday concert I've attended where the carols cont...
November 25, 2008

WA: new RPC 1.8 (m) - the air up there, state bar version

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Yodelling Llama and I went to the same CLE, and both were a bit chagrined to learn that most contracts for conflict defender services in th...
November 24, 2008

FL: perils of politicians as public defenders

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Out of Jax, Fla, political follies and fallout at the courthouse, and fun lawyer quotes too, courtesy of Channel 12 and Channel 4: Public ...
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November 20, 2008

Life in the therapeutic state

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Heard today in juvenile drug court... "We're here to support you, even if that means we have to lock you up." ... as my long c...
November 19, 2008

Volunteers

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From the AP: Ethics dilemma for lawyers when inmates seek death John Delaney faced the toughest moment of his legal career - his condemned...
November 18, 2008

WA: manicure, pedicure, judicure

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I'm still bummed out about work seven different ways, but today the Public Defender Crisis™ was good for a bitter little laugh. From Nic...
November 17, 2008

Gideon strumpet

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Scott at Simple Justice sticks up for the Rodney Dangerfields of the bar: The Vast Mystery of Public Defenders There is no mystery surroundi...
November 16, 2008

Planning your next CLE?

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Consider holding it in your state capitol building : It's where I spent Friday, courtesy of the Washington Defender Association and OPD...
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Hit points

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Like me, the dark public defender of the Sith has been down . But then he got some good news : I've been promoted to a level 3 attorney....

"The picture is not pretty, and it's about to get uglier"

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From Legal Ethics Forum: The Growing Public Defender Crisis See the comments, too. I propose a new model rule: it shall be presumptively une...
November 15, 2008

Nation's in recession and what do we get?

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Gideon's calling for a different sort of bailout . Meanwhile, the Great Fringed One weighs in: Gerry Spence's blog .
November 13, 2008

Juvy blues

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Light linking and posting this week. At the moment I'm extraordinarily bummed out about juvenile justice, and not just because Apache Co...
November 11, 2008

Veterans Day

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Veterans's / Armistice / Remembrance Day regards to all, particularly to the people of Fort Lewis . This year's holiday is memorabl...
November 09, 2008

MN: "my student loans are 40 percent of my monthly income"

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From Minnesota Public Radio: Public defenders moonlight to pay off school debt The Minnesota Public Defender's office will ask the Legis...
November 08, 2008

Leaving the assembly line

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From the New York Times: Citing Rising Workload, Public Lawyers Reject Cases “Right now a lot of public defenders are starting to stand up a...