Pleading the Sixth: On the heels of Utah’s comprehensive reform, the Idaho legislature steps up and empowers the state indigent defense commission created in 2014 to promulgate and enforce binding standards. The carrot for counties to comply comes in the form…
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Idaho empowers state commission with new authority and new funding
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Idaho passes initial reforms; Second round of reforms introduced
Pleading the Sixth: The Idaho Senate unanimously passed an initial indigent defense reform package, sending it on for the Governor’s signature. Not content to rest with creating a uniform standard of indigency and barring children from waiving counsel, among others…
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