Closing the Gap on Indigent Defense

Submitted by Aerin on Thu, 08/26/2010 - 2:15pm

The State's Task Force on Indigent Defense yesterday awarded $4.1 million in grant monies to establish a new public defender program in Harris County. The county had been the largest jurisdiction in the nation without a coordinated defense program for indigent defendants.

The Task Force also released reports from the Timothy Cole Advisory Panel on Wrongful Convictions. This panel was created in 2009, and exists to study the causes of wrongful conviction in Texas, and make recommendations on methods of preventing such instances in the future.

A Texas Tribune blog post provides further details on the work of the Task Force.

Task Force on Indigent Defense

Report by Timothy Cole Advisory Panel

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