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Staff investigators provide support to the Trial, Appellate, Parole, Mental Health, Civil Legal Services, Community Defender and Office of Rehabilitation and Development divisions. Investigators assist PDS attorneys at all stages of a case beginning the day the case arrives to the agency.
Some attorneys are public defenders employed by the Committee itself. [2] Others are private criminal defense attorneys appointed by the courts to represent indigent defendants. [2] [3] [4] CPCS has several divisions: a Private Counsel Division, [5] a Public Defender division, [5] [6] a Youth Advocacy division, [5] [7] and a Mental Health ...
Five of them appeared to struggle with mental health issues or substance use, according to information shared by police and fire officials on individual cases. ... The L.A. County public defender ...
A federal judge sentenced Anna Rene Moore to 90 months in prison, a harsher sentence than that requested by the government and a federal public defender.
The U.S. Supreme Court has issued numerous rulings regarding mental health and how society treats and regards the mentally ill. While some rulings applied very narrowly, perhaps to only one individual, other cases have had great influence over wide areas.
The report, from the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division, also found that Oklahoma City, the state's largest city, defaults to sending police officers to deal with mental health crises even ...
Potential participants in a mental health court are usually screened early on in the criminal process, either at the jail or by court staff such as pretrial services officers or social workers in the public defender's office. Most courts have criteria related to what kind of charges, criminal histories, and diagnoses will be accepted.
Origins of public defender caseloads. In 1973, the National Advisory Commission Justice Standards established that public defenders should be able to work up to 150 felony cases, 400 misdemeanors ...