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Why are attorneys leaving the Dallas Public Defender's office?

Five attorneys have resigned from the Dallas Public Defender's office in the past month thanks to oversized caseloads and pressure from the county commissioner's court to short-change clients legal representation via a new, weekly reporting system. Two of those lawyers - Mike Howard and David Woodruff - just opened their own practice, and their website includes a blog whose first post gives their reasons for leaving the PD office:A while back the county commissioners? court started making life difficult for the PDs for seemingly no reason. We had always been required to keep monthly stats on our docket (number of cases appointed, pending cases, cases disposed by trial, plea, revocation, et cetera) and that was okay. But then the commissioners wanted weekly stats...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on September 02, 2008 (boomark / email).