The Monroe County Public Defender's Office is one of 12 in the country that will host young attorneys in a new fellowship program designed to improve representation of indigent defendants. An initial class of 18 Public Defender Corps members will work at sites in seven different states to learn best practices of public defense and eventually raise the standard of representation across the country.
James Kernan likes being able to help people -- especially those who cannot help themselves. He has spent more than 20 years with the Wayne County Public Defender's Office that he now leads. Kernan took over the helm Jan. 1, which is also when the position changed to full-time, something the previous public defender, Ronald C. Valentine, pushed for before handing the reins over to Kernan.
The Baltimore County Public Defender and the four supervising attorneys in the juvenile division of the agency's Baltimore City office have been fired. Thelma Triplin, whose leadership of the county office was publicly called into question as part of the firing of former State Public Defender Nancy Forster in August 2009, was terminated Thursday, according to sources within the Office of the Public Defender. Donald E. Zaremba is now acting public defender in Baltimore County.
A year and a half after a three-member board of trustees fired Maryland's public defender -- a controversy that led to legislative reform -- most of the new 13-member board gathered in Annapolis on Friday afternoon for their first meeting, an orientation session featuring a presentation by Public Defender Paul B. DeWolfe Jr. The new board, which has been appointed piecemeal over the past couple months and still has two vacancies, is composed of criminal defense lawyers, law professors and other attorneys from around the state, in keeping with the diversity of background dictated by the General Assembly.
In a brief hearing Friday, a Shawnee County District Court judge appointed a public defender to represent Dustin J. Leftwich on charges that he killed a recent Seaman High School graduate on May 25. Leftwich sat alone at the defense table during the five-minute hearing. He answered questions from District Court Judge Cheryl Kingfisher about his income and whether he intended to hire his own defense attorney.
The Maryland Office of the Public Defender must fine-tune its procedures for determining who is eligible for its services and improve its bookkeeping and fee collection practices, according to a legislative audit published Tuesday. The audit, which covered mid-2007 through mid-2010, also faulted the indigent legal defense agency for contracting out network and database management instead of handling it in-house and for paying one employee for 168 days after the person left -- to the tune of $20,560.
Dale Baich knows about life on death row - for the past 15 years, he has been defending Arizona's death-row inmates in federal court. He leads the Habeas Unit of the Federal Public Defender's Office for the District of Arizona and his work gains widespread attention whenever the state executes someone.
The first session of 2012 for the Cattaraugus County Legislature went smoothly Wednesday, except for the reappointment of the public defender. The reappointment of Mark S. Williams of Hinsdale as public defender drew comments from Minority Leader William E. Sprague, D- Yorkshire, and six negative votes from Democrat legislators.
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