Common pleas courts can order public defenders to act as standby counsel for defendants even after the defender’s office has determined they aren’t financially eligible for assistance, the state Supreme Court has ruled.
The deeply divided court said that under the facts in the case, the trial court “acted within its province” in ordering the county public defenders’ office to act as standby counsel for a man accused of raping a minor.
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