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SB 317 Public Defender Commission; duties.

Introduced by: Kenneth W. Stolle | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles

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Public Defender Commission; duties. Requires the Public Defender Commission to (i) require and ensure that each public defender office collects and maintains caseload data and fields in a case management database on an annual basis, (ii) report annually on or before October 1 to the Virginia State Crime Commission, the House and Senate Committees for Courts of Justice, the House Committee on Appropriations, and the Senate Committee on Finance detailing Virginia's ranking amongst the 50 states in terms of pay allowed for court-appointed counsel, cost effectiveness of the various public defender offices and the cost effectiveness of establishing public defender offices in those localities that do not offer public defender services and (iii) establish four regional capital defense units by the end of fiscal year 2004. The bill also requires that in capital cases after July 1, 2004, one attorney in indigent capital cases be appointed from a capital defense unit established by the Public Defender Commission.


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