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County commissioners OK $1M fund for migrants facing deportation

Eighty percent of people facing deportation proceedings in San Antonio immigration court do not have an attorney. ....

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'Somebody dropped the ball': Sakai says he was blindsided by fee increase for indigent defense

Members of the San Antonio Criminal Defense Lawyers Association attending a seminar during Fiesta were among the first people to hear the good news: county court judges had days earlier approved a fee increase for misdemeanor indigent defense cases. The pay increase for private attorneys who represent defendants who cannot otherwise afford legal counsel was long overdue, multiple county officials and defense attorneys told KSAT Investigates. ....

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Travis County Tries to Fix Its Public Defense Problems

But advocates warn about the middleman ....

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Editorial: New public defense model will reform a broken system

Bexar County’s new Managed Assigned Counsel Department should bring much-needed reform. ....

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Bexar spends millions on private attorneys — with no oversight

Attorneys at the misdemeanor level have no financial incentive to work hard beyond their. ....

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