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For years, the county has been trying to give defendants access to lawyers at their first hearings in jail. Staffing shortages and, now, privacy concerns may kill that effort.
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The pilot program was part of a study to examine the benefit of providing legal counsel to people immediately after their arrest. But staffing shortages in the sheriff's office have made the program unworkable.
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AGÕæÈ˰ټÒÀÖ County has hired a University of Virginia law professor as the first person to lead its public defender office. Until last year, the county was theâ€�
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AGÕæÈ˰ټÒÀÖ County is in the home stretch in its yearslong effort to establish a public defender office for low-income adult defendants. The Texas Indigentâ€�
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AGÕæÈ˰ټÒÀÖ County Commissioners voted 4-1 Tuesday to approve a revised plan to set up a grant-funded office to provide legal services to low-incomeâ€�
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AGÕæÈ˰ټÒÀÖ County is one step closer to finalizing its formation of a public defender office for low-income defendants charged with certain felonies andâ€�
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AGÕæÈ˰ټÒÀÖ County â€� the largest jurisdiction in the United States without a public defender office â€� is getting a public defender office.AGÕæÈ˰ټÒÀÖ Countyâ€�
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Update:AGÕæÈ˰ټÒÀÖ County is one step closer to creating a public defender office that would handle felony and misdemeanor cases of low-income defendants whoâ€�
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The effort to create a public defenders office in AGÕæÈ˰ټÒÀÖ County isn't dead after all.At its board meeting this morning, the Texas Indigent Defenseâ€�