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Texas' Office of Capital Writs

By Steve Hall

"Cuts challenge new state office for death-row appeals," is the title of Chuck Lindell's Austin American-Statesman.  It appeared in the January 1 edition.  Here are extended excerpts: Troubled by revelations of second-rate work by court-appointed attorneys, Texas legislators in 2009 created a state office to improve appeals on behalf of death-row inmates. Now staffed with four lawyers and two investigators, the Office of Capital Writs is beginning work on its first cases ? but it's facing an uncertain future. Two rounds of budget cuts have already cost the office a part-time worker and prompted remaining staffers to cut corners by supplying their own ergonomic chairs, buying office supplies and traveling on the cheap by staying with friends or declining to be repaid for meals...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on January 03, 2011 (boomark / email).