[PDF] Top 20 On the Public Defender

... Every international comparison proves that the homicide rate of the United States is probably the highest for any civilized country in the world." The articles "Reorganization of the Bar[r] ... See full document

... a public defender’s first loyalty is to the government that provides the defender’s paycheck—the same government that is prosecuting the ...A Public Defender, 1 Yale ...(1971). Public ... See full document

... People would become accustomed to relying upon the office of the public defender for appeals, as they now depend upon the office of the district attorney for prosecutions, and the action[r] ... See full document

... In view of the travesty of dignified procedure which so often occurs in criminal cases when insanity is the defense, we gladly record the statement of the Public Defender that "wherever [r] ... See full document

... It also provides that the Public Defender shall, after representing indigent defendants in the Police Court, spend the remainder of his time, if he has any, in the Civil Division of the [r] ... See full document

... "I am convinced that the entire expense of maintaining the Public Defender's office, including all salaries paid, is saved the pecqple of the county and State many times a year because o[r] ... See full document

... "In the following table a comparison is made between the results of cases handled by the Public Defender in 1914, those handled by paid" attorneys in private practice during the same per[r] ... See full document

... Extracts from the annual report of Los Angeles County, California, are given with editorial comment which concludes: "The volume and character of the work performed by the Los Angeles pu[r] ... See full document

... the third step indicated by the County Lawyers Association Committee's report, we see that "in the event that the defendant is held to await the action of the Grand Jury, the facts are i[r] ... See full document

... 50 This lack of funding precipitated inadequate attorney compensation51 and a lack of essential resources such as expert, investigative, and support services, 52 and often led to a sizab[r] ... See full document

... committee is now being organized to devise a systematic plan for the discharge of this professional duty." Thus the Committee on Defense of Indigent Persons Accused of Crime was created [r] ... See full document

... Instead of the congestion in the transaction of business that was more or less in evidence in the cases of most indigent persons, I observed that in these cases, either the Public Defend[r] ... See full document

... The co-operation of the District Attorney has been especially helpful, because, by frequent conferences between the members of the DistrictAttorney's staff and the lawyers for the Commit[r] ... See full document

... There are those who would have us believe that it is absolutely impossible for an innocent person to be gonvicted, that a miscarriage of justice is quite inconceivable, that the poor def[r] ... See full document

... Furthermore, in such communities, the population is usually familiar with the person concerned, his reputation and his past conduct, and as much of the nature and details of the offense [r] ... See full document

... act' at attorney in the dein either the Superior Court fense of any person chaiged with 0 or the Court of Common Pleas, In the county for which he shall have been appointed, except New H[r] ... See full document

... and Defender Association, In Defense of Public Access to Justice: An Assessment of Trial-level Indigent Services in Louisiana 40 Years after Gideon (Washington, ... See full document

... PUBLIC DEFENDER had three or four plus Wassermann reactions; 15 per cent of these young girls had active infectious syphilitic manifestations, such as chancre, mucous patch, or condyloma[r] ... See full document

... conjunction with the Virginia State Bar, shall adopt standards" and that "[t]he Supreme Court and the Public Defender Commission shall maintain a list or lists of attorneys admi[r] ... See full document

... The judge presiding at any term or session of the superior court or court of common pleas may, upon application of the public defender for such county, appoint an attorney other than the[r] ... See full document