The impact of public defender programs in Texas would increase significantly in 2011 if a state agency approves two grant applications currently in the hopper.
On May 24, a Texas Task Force on Indigent Defense subcommittee will review Lubbock County’s application for $7.65 million to expand West Texas Regional Public Defender for Capital Cases, a Lubbock-based program that contracts with counties to provide court-appointed representation for indigent defendants in cases involving the possibility of the death penalty. The program serves 71 counties, but under the expansion plan, it would serve 240 counties, says Jim Bethke, TTFID’s director. TTFID distributes state funding for indigent-defense programs and oversees how counties carry out the Fair Defense Act, which sets standards for the representation of indigent criminal defendants.
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