Public defender's office-amendments.

05LSO-0254.L1

                                                         

FISCAL NOTE

 

No significant fiscal or personnel impact.

 

We have had private attorneys in the past attempt to have the Public Defender pay their legal expenses for representing indigent clients not appointed by the Public Defender; however, the Public Defender has been able to thwart those attempts in court proceedings.

 

This bill would make it clear that we can not and should not pay for private counsel.  Indigent clients must accept the assigned public defender as their counsel.

 

 

 

Prepared by: Brian Young, Public Defender's Office Phone:   777-6479