More on the Proposed Public Defender Office in Harris County, Texas
Interested parties are swallowing this news with a healthy dose of skepticism, but the County Commissioners Court took a step closer to the creation of a Public Defender Office in Harris County by approving the commission of a study on the financial impact of establishing a PD office. The report is expected in September.
- Houston Chronicle, Public defenders office to get close look
- Proposed Harris County study will likely predict substantial savings from a public defender office
- Commissioners Approve PD Study
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Via the omni-present Grits (does he ever SLEEP, for pete’s sake?) - letter to the Chronicle on Need for public defenders in Harris County from the trenches, as it were.
Which leads me to ask - is there anyone who publicly opposes a public defender office and why?
There will be a symposium at the University of Houston Law Center on Sept. 5th 2008 to analyze methods of providing indigent defense with some of the leading minds on the issue - details to follow.
More on the proposed Public Defender’s Office from Mark Bennett at Defending People For a Public Defender’s Office.