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How to Defend Public Defenders - The Atlantic


The Atlantic
Defend the Public Defenders
Their ability to hold on to their job should not depend on the same people they challenge in court.
March 13, 2021
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Public defense might be one of the rare professions in which doing one’s job too well can lead to being fired. The reasons for this are structural public defenders are tasked with an obligation they cannot fulfill without upsetting those tasked with helping them fulfill it and the system can be fixed structurally: by creating a state-level office whose job it is to defend public defenders.
Consider the case of two public defenders from Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, Dean Beer and Keisha Hudson, who say they were fired last year after filing an amicus brief describing as unacceptable and unconstitutional court decisions regarding bail that harmed their clients. (The county board responsible for their firing has not publicly commented on the personnel matter and did not respond to ....

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Bill to protect victims in pretrial process advances | The NM Political Report


Members of the House Consumer and Public Affairs Committee on Thursday considered the sensitive issue of how best to protect some of the state’s most vulnerable people including children and incapacitated adults in the court’s pretrial process.
House Bill 143, sponsored by three Democrats and one Republican, including Rep. Meredith Dixon, D-Albuquerque, would restrict pretrial interviews and allow some victims to provide testimony from interviews in child safe houses before they testify in court.
The bill would also give adults the right to refuse to take part in pretrial interviews. The defense would then submit questions to the judge, who would then refer the questions to a neutral party to conduct an interview with the victim. But the victim would still have to testify.  ....

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