Sentence examples for defender services from inspiring English sources

The lawyers who take these cases should, ideally, work for professional defender services.

That has now set the stage for a trial or a settlement with the state to improve defender services.

Instead of seeking a settlement that improves defender services, the state has spent the past three years trying to prevent the courts from hearing the suit.

All current budget plans call for a permanent commission headed by the chief judge to monitor defender services and develop statewide standards.

But the statement also noted that at an event with Judge Lippman on Monday, Mr. Paterson spoke publicly about working with him to improve public defender services in the state.

Mr. Precht also writes that his superior, Leonard F. Joy, the Federal Defender, did not take a more confrontational approach in the case because he was afraid of jeopardizing his office's contract to offer public defender services.

The pattern has already been witnessed in major cities such as New Orleans, where the public defender service stopped taking on new cases in January.

"Allowing a schizophrenic in a cowboy costume to represent himself in a death penalty case gives new meaning to the term 'frontier justice,' "said Jim Marcus, executive director of the defender service.

In the 2017 annual budget proposed by the state's new governor John Bel Edwards and approved last month by the legislature, the public defender service is dealt a crushing blow – 62% cuts that will slash state funding from $33m to under $13m.

Its public defender service, a network of state-funded lawyers that provides legal representation to poor Louisianans, is in meltdown, with most of its district offices set to cancel all new cases or close down entirely by next summer.

Mr. Walsh said that while he respected Ms. Lowery's current defense team, three lawyers from Neighborhood Defender Service of Harlem, he did not feel they were doing enough to challenge witnesses who he believed were contradicting statements they made during the investigation into Ms. Stein's death in October 2007.