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Defender" (which is a fairly large state-wide agency); in case of a conflict 2) another state-wide agency that has lawyers that are charged with represented defendants as well as acting as guardians ad litem for children; or in case of two conflicts 3) appointed counsel that is paid on a per hour basis. People charged with only misdemeanors are generally represented by a law firm that has a contractual arrangement with the state. The quality of the representation is, obviously, subject to some debate because 1) standards of representation are always changing; and 2) clients sentenced to jail tend to blame their lawyers for everything. (I think my jurisdiction has a good reputation for criminal representation, but someone in jail would disagree with me).
789:- indeed they have a very flash office in my home town near the Magistrates Court- but this is a new development in England & Wales, and it looks like a pilot scheme it's only in four places. My understanding is that it was based on the American Model of doing these sorts of things. So any article about this (even one about the about the PDS service in England and Wales) has clearly got to look at the American tradition, since that is as much part of the context of how the England and Wales system developed as the tradition of the
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there is a solution in progress for the problem which the template points out then the template is just a blemish on the page without a purpose. (Like if I wrote a message with my finger on my very dirty car that said, "I really need to wash my car!" ...but refused to wash it for months...) One potentially painless solution would be to put a message on top of the page with links to (extant or not) entries for the names for indigent defense counsel around the world...PBF 04:42, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
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Like or not folks, there are a lot of difference between PDs, which are often not apparent to non-lawyers. Unfortunately, this article is just chock-full of generalizations. For instance, in the jurisdictions that I practice in, a person charged with a felony on the state level might be represented
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unable to pay, essentially? I'd say the sentence is redundant, but a little more research informs me that indigent also is a specific legal term (meaning, presumeably, that one could be unable to pay and not formerly indigent, or could be indigent but possibly able to pay). My question: Can a person
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The part about "low pay" is stupid, but before deleting it, I am going to see if people can fix it. There has always been a "concern" that people are not paid what they should be. As to caseloads, a lot of these statistics need to be put into perspective. For instance, many cases are disposed of
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The template has been here for several months now. While I am mindful of the non-jingositic NPOV ethic, I think that we should either set up a disambiguation (thus encouraging further development of articles on indigent representation around the world) or, we should just remove the template. Unless
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afford an attourney be granted the services of a public defender? If so, drop the indigent and just say "unwilling or unable to pay." If not, why not just stick with "unable to pay"? I realize this much ado about nothing, but as a non-lawyer, I think it important that legal terms are not used in an
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I agree. Most of them come from that anonymous bozo who edited this article several times in May. He has some valid points, but his spelling and grammar are absolutely atrocious. I hope he's not practicing in
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Europan countries have public defenders or something similar. I added a globalize tag, but it was removed with the comment that public defenders exist primarily in the US and Brazil. Unless this article uses som very restrictive definition of public defender I think that
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Florida is comprised of twenty judicial circuits. Some circuits have only one county and some have two or more counties. Each of the twenty judicial circuits has a constitutinally elected public defender. Interestingly, this elected office is won through partisan elections, except
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and so I linked to this article, but all it talked about was the US system, so I slapped the globalise template on it and wandered off elsewhere. Basicaly I though this would be the logical place to have an article about the general consept of having the government pay for or otherwise provide a
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Germany a public defender ("Pflichtverteidiger") is ordered by the court if the defendant has not got an other defendant by himself, even though if he has has to pay the court fees(e.g. he lost the trial) he also needs to pay the public defendant after he wents through all offical channels.
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California, if the judge has a doubt (does not need to be a reasonable doubt) of the defendant's competence to stand trial, he/she should suspend criminal proceedings
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The bias in your writing is not that bad. But I hope you do not write like that in your court documents (with so many spelling and grammar errors), or your clients will certainly be able to obtain easy reversals on appeal for ineffective assistance of counsel!
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of having the government provide or pay for a lawyer for the defendant, and not just the the spesific US legal term. Basicaly I was writing a bio stub on a
Norwegian lawyer who served as the "offentlige forsvarer" (literal translation "publid defender") of
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I attempted to flesh out the article with some of the current issues effecting public defender offices in the US. I am a public defender so anyone who sees bias in the article based on that please take appropriate
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appoint counsel (usually public defender) for the defendant even if the defendant is not indigent. I do not believe that that is a constitutional duty, however -- merely what California wrote into its statutes.
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