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Expansion in Store for Regional PD Office?

By Steve Hall

"Defenders' office could see expansion," is the title of a report in today's Lubbock Avalanche-Journal by Logan Carver.A Lubbock-based capital defense office might soon need a name change.County commissioners on Monday submitted an application for a $7.65 million grant from the Texas Task Force on Indigent Defense to greatly increase the scope of the West Texas Regional Public Defender for Capital Cases.If approved, the office that has already saved member counties in West Texas an estimated $637,000 in its two-year existence would expand drastically and become responsible for indigent capital defense statewide."From a nationwide perspective, it really elevates Texas' standards to show Texas is willing to provide the best possible defense they can for individuals charged with capital murder and willing to take whatever steps that requires to make sure that happens," said David Slayton, director of court administration for Lubbock County...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on April 27, 2010 (boomark / email).