They are tending to the indigent and abandoned in Rome.
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He was appointed an attorney and filed for indigent status.
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She was nearly indigent, living at a YMCA in Boston.
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That program has primarily represented detained, indigent immigrants facing deportation.
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Almost no waivers are granted to the indigent, she said.
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Although Louisiana's indigent defense crisis is among the country's most dire, advocates say the state legislature has eyed another potentially massive round of budget cuts that could lead to the wholesale collapse of indigent defense.
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Oklahoma, which said that indigent defendants are entitled to expert assistance.
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That's why Peron and I did it—to help indigent people.
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But it meant poor schools and indigent interior provinces lost out.
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The USAID deputy assistant administrator spent years attending to indigent mothers.
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Such widespread complaints stem from a money-saving indigent defense system.
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The federal government, which now provides just a few million dollars per year to prop up local indigent defense services, could make an annual grant of $4 billion to state and local governments for indigent defense.
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Just 10 percent of all prisoners had actually paid the copay, with the rest either being deemed indigent, clearing their trust fund accounts to qualify as indigent, or, most alarming, not seeing a doctor at all.
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" Acting under this power, California enacted a law that made it a crime to bring into the state "any indigent person who is not a resident of the State, knowing him to be an indigent person.
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It's not just indigent clients that can benefit from legal tech interventions.
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Hurston was indigent when she died, a resident of a welfare home.
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On right to counsel: Gorsuch affirmed indigent defendants have a right to counsel.
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The people who are indigent, how do we take care of them now?
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It's primarily designed for the indigent elderly, the disabled, the blind, and children.
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He has since worked on the indigent defense panel for the federal courts.
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Among other things, the bill provides for indigent defense in all forfeiture cases.
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Our clients are already poor to begin with — we only represent indigent clients.
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The somewhat less indigent are asked to pay back between 30% and 70%.
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In docs, Jules was found indigent ... which means she can't afford a lawyer.
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The earliest subjects included executed criminals, the indigent and victims of grave robbery.
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The researchers also found high impact hospitals also disproportionately treated indigent or underserved patients.
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That ranks Missouri 49th out of 50 states in per capita indigent defense funding.
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At Izzy Young's Folklore Center, indigent troubadours like Mr. Dylan could listen to records.
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Interviewed face to face, the poor and indigent are interrogated like naughty school children.
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State programs for the medically indigent help low income people pay for acute care.
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He used to do shows from clinics where doctors gave free care to the indigent.
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CNN spoke to Kohlhepp's defense attorney Shane Goranson, a South Carolina capital indigent defense lawyer.
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Officials there had grown frustrated by the increasing cost to taxpayers of cremating the indigent.
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Diversion courts, cite and release, and reforming their indigent defense process would better serve residents.
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Nixon has declined to allocate funding for indigent defense that the legislature has already approved.
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Indigent offenders could be offered community service in lieu of a fine under the legislation.
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Not so the indigent — the people who have fallen through the holes in the net.
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Government subsidies based on income would be deposited into these accounts to support indigent care.
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Funding indigent defense would also help scale back mass incarceration, a goal both parties share.
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In 1931, an indigent Texan named Plennie Wingo decided to walk around the world backward.
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Insufficient FundsThe predicament stems from Louisiana's unique "user pay" system for funding indigent legal services.
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One candidate is an indigent seamstress, another the then-teenage daughter of a wealthy family.
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About 87 percent of the jail population is black or Latino and most are indigent.
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This "asset" disqualified him as indigent and he was promptly kicked out of the program.
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He averted his gaze from indigent seniors splayed out on the ground asking for money.
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Wainwright, the 1963 decision that gave indigent criminal defendants the right to a free lawyer.
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In a city where 85% of felony defendants are considered indigent, the numbers are rising fast.
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"We are giving people the best representation they can get if they are indigent," he said.
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E.J.I. fights for indigent defendants and has won the release of inmates who were falsely arrested.
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You have the right to request appointment of counsel if you are indigent and cannot afford one.
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You have the right to request appointment counsel if you are indigent and can&apost afford one.
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Serving the indigent, she had scant seconds to consult with clients, get the facts, make a plan.
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Perhaps you're picturing them in your head, now: homeless, indigent, perhaps even criminal — did I come close?
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She is far more excited about aiding indigent defendants on the front lines of the legal system.
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This year, Alabama established new caseload limits, said Chris Roberts, the state's director of indigent defense services.
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They coached clients to falsify U.S. visa applications and pay indigent rates at hospitals where they delivered.
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They're largely going to help indigent populations, people who are lower income, people on disabilities, and school kids.
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Because the majority of those who are incarcerated are indigent, this effectively ends access to college in prison.
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You're going to end up indigent and relying on emergency room care well before you hit that level.
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Before that, we're headed to Hebrew Free Burial, a nonprofit association that provides funerals for indigent Jewish people.
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It's not just that we need more attorneys to solve the indigent defense crisis; we need better ones.
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It is not uncommon for poor and indigent residents of the world's wealthiest nations to root through dumpsters.
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An indigent person may not have the resources to hire a lawyer, and then falls through the cracks.
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Alabama's method of handling indigent defense has long been criticized as deeply flawed, particularly in death penalty cases.
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Yet improving indigent defense gets scant attention in the conversation about how to fix our criminal justice system.
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Students may also wish to consider how rules affect wealthy and indigent patients differently outside the emergency setting.
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Last year Missouri's chief public defender despairingly tried to appoint the governor to represent an indigent defendant (he declined).
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Ms. Kennedy, who was charged with negligent homicide and is indigent, qualified to have a public defender represent her.
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Rodolfo Juárez, a pastor of the International Community Church, a Protestant congregation, helps 60 indigent elderly people in Havana.
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Just over 22016 percent qualified as "indigent" in the second quarter of 2016, the government statistics agency, Indec, said.
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Up for possession of drugs, he was deemed indigent, and the city's public defender was appointed to represent him.
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The noninvasive treatment may be ideal for the indigent, nursing home residents and others who have trouble finding care.
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He also said that, as far as he knows, Mr. Willey's eligibility to represent indigent defendants has never changed.
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In between, he oversaw a city hearing about the future of Hart Island, where New York buries the indigent.
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California had already taken steps earlier in the year to mitigate the effect of cash bail on the indigent.
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Additionally, we must provide urgent income support, especially unemployment compensation and help for the indigent and low-income families.
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Stacey filed legal docs claiming she is indigent ... meaning she doesn't have enough money to hire a private lawyer.
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It supported local approaches that improved indigent defense services, corrected bad bail policies, and tackled the criminalization of homelessness.
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The most immediate threat, he said, is funding for emergency food aid to indigent Palestinians in Gaza and Syria.
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"Our office treats everyone the same, whether you have a lot of money or are indigent," Mr. Aronberg said.
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She then practiced public interest law and worked on policy initiatives on behalf of children and indigent criminal defendants.
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Just over 6 percent of the population qualified as "indigent" in the second quarter of 2016, statistics agency Indec said.
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Indigent parents like Ms Choinska qualify for their first child, too, so she gets a whopping 2,500 zlotys per month.
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He describes a conversation between Socrates and a friend who complains that indigent female relatives are spongeing off his hospitality.
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Introducing competition – and client choice – into indigent defense might be the way to reform the system and protect vulnerable populations.
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And he played a sick indigent man to try to prove ambulances don't pick you up if you can't pay.
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The group provides free legal services to the city's indigent defendants, many of whom are awaiting trial at Rikers Island.
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With unemployment pushing 30 percent and 80 percent of residents considered indigent, it was unclear how repairs would be financed.
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That didn't matter, for Williams was an indigent black man with a public defender who didn't call a single witness.
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In South Carolina, state lawmakers capped the diversion fee at $350 and said it might be waived for indigent defendants.
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It came up at the CNN townhall, where he explained why the government isn't responsible for taking care of the indigent.
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Despite its reputation, Mass General — as it is known — was established in 1811 to care for the city's poor and indigent.
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"We have become more a service for those indigent and pauper cases that can't afford a funeral," Byrd told the commissioners.
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With national polls looming in April and May, the two main political parties are competing to shower money on the indigent.
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Instead of arresting indigent people, the NYPD has begun issuing summonses—which means the case is handled in the civil system.
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There is also a robust system of government and charity care for the poor, indigent, and victims of rare, expensive diseases.
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She is a 2017 John Jay - Harry Frank Guggenheim Criminal Justice Reporting Fellow, focusing on indigent defense under the Trump Administration.
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Maybe Johnson was just using a fake address because she was homeless; she was, after all, also described as being indigent.
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Once home, he begins to regain his strength, even though he is indigent and can no longer afford glossy legal representation.
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Jay Nixon should be doing is stinting on support of the state public defender system, which provides counsel to indigent defendants.
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The neighborhood was quite ramshackle when we moved in, and to this day it hosts a significant population of indigent men.
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"Our office treats everyone the same, whether you have a lot of money or are indigent," Mr. Aronberg said last week.
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Harcourt was moved to help Hamm after learning of the abject quality of legal protection afforded indigent defendants in capital cases.
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It was even poised to recognize the indigent as a constitutionally protected group, like racial minorities, under the Equal Protection Clause.
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There is no statewide public-defender system in Alabama, so courts often appoint private attorneys to provide defense for the indigent.
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As a law professor who occasionally represents indigent criminal defendants, I am deeply troubled by prosecutions under vague, open-ended laws.
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Instead, Fuentes and Van Horn, who work for a large law firm that sometimes performs work for indigent clients, took the case.
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Dunn, a case pending before the U.S. Supreme Court involving the question of whether indigent defendants are entitled to independent expert witnesses.
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In its motion to withdraw from the case, the public defenders' office said it is prohibited from representing a non-indigent person.
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And you're making it possible for indigent and abused women in New York City to get the legal representation they desperately need.
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Meanwhile, the state's epidemic has become so dire that its indigent burial fund is running out of money to bury overdose victims.
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To dramatize his cry for help, he drafted the governor himself, assigning him as counsel for an indigent man charged with assault.
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Because CMS now expects more uninsured people in the U.S., the agency raised supplemental payments to hospitals that treat more indigent patients.
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But when these 17 bodies arrived in 1985, the island's hardened crews, used to burying dozens of indigent people per week, recoiled.
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The victims are of the ruling, upper, managerial class—whatever you want to call it—and these are working-class indigent youths.
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They raised concerns about everything from the bureaucracy and paperwork involved in distributing MetroCards to indigent families to proposed state budget cuts.
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The bride, 30, works at the Center for Appellate Litigation in Manhattan, where she serves as appellate counsel for indigent criminal defendants.
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She is a member of the Assigned Counsel Plan, where she represents children and indigent clients in Queens Family Court in Jamaica.
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Muslims' well-documented generosity and the Ramadan spirit of empathizing with the poor must be directed at indigent Muslim communities at home.
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Velazquez, in which Justice Kennedy said the federal government cannot restrict federally-funded lawyers for indigent civil clients from challenging welfare laws.
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Circuit Judge Bernice Bouie Donald dissented from Wednesday's decision, faulting Michigan for imposing a "harsher sanction" on indigent drivers than other drivers.
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Public hospitals ensured that even the indigent received good medical care — health problems for some could turn into epidemics for us all.
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Meanwhile, Medicaid spending — healthcare spending for to the indigent — is a function of local health care systems, local health needs, and poverty.
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On top of diversion fees, defendants also pay for court costs, drug tests, counseling and the services of an indigent defense lawyer.
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An attorney for the South Carolina Commission on Indigent Defense, which said it is representing Kohlhepp, has declined to comment on the case.
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Civil suit filed Kohlhepp's defense attorney Shane Goranson, with the South Carolina Commission on Indigent Defense, has declined to comment on the interview.
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"Why should the property-taxpayers in Harris County pay for indigent health care when the federal government will pay for it?" he asks.
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"This is the proudest day of my life," he said, indicating that he would return to Leesburg and Okahumpka to represent indigent clients.
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She argues that British colonizers saw their North American empire as a place to dump their human waste: the idle, indigent and criminal.
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It also provides due process protections for people who are subject to public health orders, including a right to counsel for indigent individuals.
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This new case, though, exposes another potential problem: Indigent defense lawyers often get their assignments from the judges in whose courtroom they appear.
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The couple had entered the ranks of the "ultra-poor"—the most indigent group of all who are barely able to feed themselves.
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The most indigent are expected to pay back 20% of the value of the asset (often a cow or bull) that they receive.
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Judges can appoint private attorneys to represent indigent defendants, but the Louisiana State Bar Association opposes such appointments and lawyers have pushed back.
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The in-person meeting that indigent detainees get with those project lawyers is their first contact, sometimes after weeks or months in jail.
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There are currently community funds helping to bail out indigent pretrial inmates in at least 10 cities — among them Seattle, Boston and Baltimore.
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So she returned to Savannah to practice law with her father, Aaron, who represented black and indigent clients struggling to find legal counsel.
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Ms. Mauksch, 28, is criminal defense lawyer for the Bronx Defenders, an organization that provides legal services to indigent residents of the borough.
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Last year, 33 of the state's 42 local indigent defense offices cut staff or placed thousands of poor defendants on a wait list.
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So bleak are things now, she explains to the group, that some of Glide's homeless and indigent clients commute from Antioch, 45 miles away.
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In the court docs, he reportedly listed himself as indigent and in need of a public defender, but we're told that ain't gonna happen.
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IN PLACES at Europe's southern extreme, such as Sicily, Catholic charities work hard to succour the indigent folk who turn up in leaky boats.
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It also estimated federal funding for Medicaid, which funds medical care for the poor and indigent, would be $102.2 billion lower in that year.
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It was a purchase of convenience: Hart Island, where the city's deceased indigent population was getting buried by inmates, was a boat ride away.
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The bills would also provide an avenue for indigent offenders to perform community service rather than pay fines when appearing before an administrative judge.
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A judge acknowledged a "serious systemic problem" in Louisiana&aposs indigent-defense system, but said the issues should be addressed in the appeals process.
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Eighty-five percent of people accused of a crime in Louisiana are indigent, and a disproportionate number of those incarcerated are people of color.
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The Access to Justice Office helped preserve our Sixth Amendment rights by intervening in cases challenging the denial of effective counsel to indigent defendants.
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There have been so many overdose deaths that the state exhausted its indigent burial fund five months before the end of this fiscal year.
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If hospitals aren't using the profits from the discounted drugs to provide greater care for the indigent, then where exactly are these dollars going?
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In late December, Sessions announced the repeal of a guidance document that cautioned judges against the burdensome enforcement of fines for indigent criminal offenders.
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He is also the founder of PAWS New York Capital Region, a group that helps indigent people with HIV/AIDS with pet-care needs.
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As Congress and the president consider reform policies, Medicaid reimbursement rates for the elderly, indigent poor, and able-bodied adults needs to be reconciled.
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But this case is also a window into the much broader problem of an often dysfunctional criminal justice system that particularly oppresses the indigent.
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At a fundraising event in February, Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland raised $55,000 in private donations to cover the cost of expungement for indigent applicants.
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While indigent defense is chronically underfunded, hard-working public defenders stand shoulder to shoulder with their clients every day in the fight for justice.
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Had the court accepted the states' arguments, tens of thousands of indigent women could have lost the health care they receive from the group.
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A computer chooses winners at random and, before receiving a visa, those selected must undergo a screening process that bars criminals and the indigent.
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The groom, also 28, is a lawyer at Appellate Advocates, a nonprofit organization in Manhattan, where he represents indigent criminal defendants appealing their convictions.
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The Council, which has underwritten a program that since 2013 has defended all indigent immigrants in deportation proceedings, vowed to continue it — without restrictions.
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"I can only hope this lawyer's tale will inspire other lawyers to volunteer to represent indigent death row inmates," Frazier concluded his 2004 piece.
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I crossed the river, passed a cemetery and some railroad tracks, and stopped before an almshouse to watch the indigent of the city gather.
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At Lilly, we have programs that help people when they're unable to afford their medicine, including patient co-pay assistance and programs for the indigent.
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The dense content points toward both a working-class Catholic upbringing in New Jersey and an indigent New York tenement life, one backgrounded by gentrification.
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For nearly 8 years, he opposed the death penalty and headed a New York group of lawyers that protected indigent suspects and fought for veterans.
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The bond payment and legal representation are being provided pro bono as part of a program for indigent clients, Nexus Services CEO Mike Donovan says.
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Across the country, similar lawsuits launched by the ACLU have forced states and localities to adequately fund indigent defense, and therefore fulfill their constitutional obligations.
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That ensures that the New York Immigrant Family Unity Project, which since 2013 has represented indigent immigrants who have been detained, will continue to exist.
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It is, rather, Bellevue's enduring commitment as a public hospital to the indigent, its relentless insistence on viewing health care as a basic human right.
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The obligation to provide lawyers for indigent defendants is enshrined in the Sixth Amendment, and it makes sense that the state should pay for it.
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On the issue of legal representation for poor defendants, Sessions has made clear that protecting the constitutional rights of the indigent is not a priority.
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Mr. Bracy was assessed $2,000 for the services of his indigent defense lawyer, T. J. Haywood, but he said Mr. Haywood was hard to reach.
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I have been doing this work for nearly 10 years, and I cannot think of a single indigent client I have represented who is married.
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Here in Oklahoma, criminal defendants can be assessed 66 different kinds of fees, from a "courthouse security fee" to a "sheriff's fee for pursuing fugitive from justice," and even a fee for an indigent person applying for a public defender (I'm not kidding: An indigent person is actually billed for requesting a public defender, and if he or she does not pay, an arrest warrant is issued).
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Arguably, indigent prisoners burden society twice: first with their crimes, and additionally by forcing society to pay for their housing, health care, and security while incarcerated.
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The state of Alabama fell short of its obligation to provide expert psychological evaluation assistance to an indigent death penalty defendant, the Supreme Court ruled Monday.
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But the Court did not explicitly say that states are required to provide independent evaluation experts for indigent defendants, as many advocates had hoped they would.
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Her daughter died not indigent or abandoned, but after heart surgery at Mount Sinai Hospital during the blizzard of 1978, when the city was shut down.
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I made a promise to Our Lady of Guadalupe that if I passed the CPA exam I'd deliver food and clothing to the indigent in Mexico.
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Barely speaking English, he too was deemed indigent; but because his alleged offence—sexual battery—was more serious, the public defender reluctantly declined to represent him.
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The Legal Aid Society, based in New York City, which provides legal aid to the indigent and impoverished, released a statement regarding the first trial's outcome.
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When someone proves to be indigent and unable to pay fines in, say, a traffic case, the law requires a court to consider alternatives to imprisonment.
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Yet politicians at every level of government remain almost completely silent about one of the biggest crises facing criminal justice: the utter collapse of indigent defense.
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Worse, since 1995, real spending on indigent defense has fallen, by 20003 percent, even as the number of felony cases has risen by approximately 40 percent.
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In 1997, along with seven others, including her husband, David Feige, she co-founded the Bronx Defenders, a nonprofit that provides legal services to indigent clients.
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I'm planning on starting an outreach program for the homeless, the indigent, and juveniles, where we deconstruct and reconstruct some of the houses in the area.
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During an office party at Kim's firm, he measures the size of her office, reads an appreciative letter from an indigent client, and then gets annoyed.
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The California bill puts the burden on the courts to determine if a violator is "indigent" and if so, assess a lower fine based on income.
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"We the people have the responsibility to take care of the indigent in our society," he said at a Republican town hall-style event in February.
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Amini and Sadr approached an organization for indigent young women, which took Leyla into its care and provided her with a psychologist and a private tutor.
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Reimer told me that for years he had been asking Koch Industries to donate funds to support indigent defense, but it didn't do so until 2014.
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But because of a lack of outreach and an application process riddled with unnecessary hurdles, many indigent homeowners did not know about or receive the exemption.
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Keller said the policy was necessary because Illinois halted or delayed payments for indigent burials due to the state&aposs prolonged budget crisis, which ended last summer.
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But otherwise he has made only one argument: that those defendants deemed indigent, and so notionally represented by his office, have been denied due process of law.
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A little more than 50 years later, Carson said that America has lost the war, adding that people should take care of the indigent, not the government.
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The Supreme Court has ruled that people should be jailed only when they refuse to pay, not when they can't, and in theory safeguards protect the indigent.
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West Virginia has the country's highest death rate from overdoses—so many that the state has already exhausted its indigent burial fund for the current fiscal year.
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After a presentation on Cruz's finances by his lawyers, she said he had roughly $37,000 and scheduled an April 11 hearing to determine whether he was indigent.
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And, with one of the highest poverty rates in the country, Texas makes an unusual offer to its poor: a so-called indigent discount for handgun applicants.
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Previously with Tulane University School of Law in New Orleans, she worked to help 8,000 indigent defendants left incarcerated without legal representation after Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
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Returning Medicaid to its core mission covering the truly indigent and embracing reasonable work requirements for non-disabled adults would not only be fiscally prudent, but popular.
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Any bailout of medallion owners could cost billions of dollars, and officials have said they cannot offer residents a payout unless they are indigent or legally broke.
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But what makes the hospital a singularity isn't its psychiatric facilities; it's the institution's enduring commitment to treating the indigent, and its agility in treating incipient epidemics.
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Dust Bowl migrants, for example, were so resented that legislators passed a 250 "anti-Okie" law a that criminalized the bringing of "any indigent person" into California.
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Counties have long played a significant role in healthcare, supporting more than 220006 safety net hospitals and over 2202 nursing homes for indigent and low-income residents.
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" What the Turtles have created is a museum that honors the harsh realities and the history of the homeless, an indigent population that Londoners call "rough sleepers.
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But Justice Rosa's decision was the first in New York State to explicitly point out the constitutional inequities that indigent defendants face when they cannot pay their bail.
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This is all quite a long way from the Ugandan village where the future prelate was born in 1949 as the sixth of 13 children of an indigent priest.
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His bosses have warned him to end his habit of collecting boxing detritus — namely, the sweaty, discarded hand wraps — which he auctions off to raise money for indigent boxers.
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Mr. Gradess's work on behalf of indigent suspects and inmates who were entangled in the criminal justice bureaucracy extended beyond the courtroom to the capitols in Albany and Washington.
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At the 2011 meeting, County Attorney Dan Street said a formal arrangement with Byrd was unnecessary because officials were merely referring the indigent to him, without any endorsement implied.
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This could include cases in which indigent families were billed without an adequate way for them to demonstrate their income level, which was also required by the old law.
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Hays Burchfield, who represented Jauch in the drug case, said recent changes in Mississippi law "may help indigent people like Jessica avoid sitting in jail" while awaiting a lawyer.
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Now, Hardy is considering a lawsuit against the Legal Aid Society, the private, non-profit legal services firm that initially represented Salem and is known for representing indigent defendants.
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Her state is battling a drug addiction problem so severe that a program that covers the cost of funerals for the indigent cannot keep up with the death toll.
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" In the U.S., he writes in the complaint, "stringent laws have been enacted to prescribe how loans can be made and to prevent lenders from preying on indigent people.
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As Alabama is the only state in the country that does not provide indigent death sentence inmates with attorneys for post-conviction appeals, Kuenzel was left without legal representation.
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Over six years ago, law professors Stephen J. Schulhofer and David Friedman proposed the idea of using incentives to align the interests of the lawyer and the indigent client.
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Vouchers will put out of business those attorneys who don't deserve the license, and ultimately improve the quality of indigent defense and therefore the quality of justice for all.
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African countries certainly felt targeted by President Trump's comments, and so it's worth exploring whether African immigrants in particular, as restrictionists might imagine, are poor, indigent, and low-skilled.
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While low-income or indigent people who have been arrested are not barred from electronic monitoring on cost alone, fees are the biggest issue facing widespread use of AEM.
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From the suburban mother who started a movement helping Detroit's indigent to a 225-year-old boy in a superhero cape feeding Birmingham's homeless, the stories are still inspirational.
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To make things worse, 43 states now require indigent defendants to pay at least a portion of their lawyers' fees, even though these defendants are by definition indisputably poor.
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Someone who qualifies as indigent may be acquitted, only to be convicted of being too poor to pay for the legal services the Constitution requires the state to provide.
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"As the city expanded, and as the divide between rich and poor grew ever wider, alarming numbers of indigent men and women gathered each day on Broadway," Leadon writes.
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Now city lawmakers have proposed creating a park in a most unlikely place: the island where the city has been burying its indigent in mass graves since the 1800s.
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Justice Rosa said that "people are being treated differently and unfairly based upon their indigent status" — which, she added, violated the Constitution's guarantees of equal protection and due process.
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Facing an unknown future, we are, thank God, neither homeless nor indigent, but we are dependent on the willingness of fellow citizens to share extraordinary medical costs through Medicaid.
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In that time he had seen at least 200 gunshot wounds, for it was a city-county hospital for indigent patients, many of whom got mixed up in shootings.
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An "army of two", the young priests sail via Macau to Japan to investigate, and are immediately adopted by a group of indigent peasant farmers who practise Christianity in secret.
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Once considered a billionaire but later declared indigent, Stanford was convicted by a Houston jury in March 2012 on charges of conspiracy, wire and mail fraud, obstruction and money laundering.
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In January 2005, four months after he was found, Doe was transferred to the J.C. Lewis Primary Health Care Center, a residence for the homeless and indigent in downtown Savannah.
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For those who don't know, the risk corridors were created to prop up insurers as they were forced to take on higher populations of the sick and indigent under ObamaCare.
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I have been a public defender in a medium-size county in California and now represent indigent clients on appeal in court-appointed cases from many parts of the state.
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The letter outlined what it called constitutional principles, instructing court systems not to jail indigent defendants who were unable—not unwilling—to pay fees and fines and to consider alternatives.
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But these institutions, particularly the state hospitals, soon became repositories for society's unwanted and adrift, alcoholics, the indigent and vagrant, mixed in with those experiencing psychosis and severe mood problems.
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In 1986, after an influx of indigent Mexicans ran up costs at the county-funded hospital, Mr. O'Rourke sent an invoice for the charges — $7.5 million — to President Ronald Reagan.
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The Department of Correction already provides free phone calls in certain circumstances: Indigent people could make three free phone calls per week, and sentenced inmates could make two per week.
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Junod is 64, a lifelong Philadelphian, and he started at the district attorney's office in 1987, with a stopover working as a court-appointed private defense attorney representing indigent clients.
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Soon she's back in New York, where she stands up for an indigent immigrant whose entry is blocked by an immigration officer, while a repentant J.J. waits in the wings.
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A federal judge in Houston has overturned the county's bail system for people charged with low-level crimes after finding that it disproportionately affected indigent residents and violated the Constitution.
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The judge, Lee H. Rosenthal, who was appointed by the first President Bush, found that the system disproportionately affected indigent residents and violated "equal protection rights against wealth-based discrimination."
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Beyond that, the rich can afford high-priced defense lawyers where the poor have to rely on public defenders—in Louisiana, indigent defendants are lucky if they even get that.
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"You have to give the indigent defendants, just as you give the wealthier defendant, the tools that they need to establish what they want to establish about mental health," she said.
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He said that the Legislature does provide a yearly appropriation, but that a fee attached to traffic tickets and other violations constitutes the bulk of the funding for local indigent defense.
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These released individuals, many of whom are repeat offenders, walk out of jail and continue to victimize the very people proponents of bail reform claim to protect – the poor and indigent.
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Transfers to the very poor would be lower under Congress's plan, but since a broader scheme's chances of survival are higher, indigent Indians would probably benefit more in the long run.
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In 18th-century Great Britain, posthumous dissection was a punishment for criminals, and grave robbing in the 19th century for anatomical dissection often preyed on non-white and indigent burial grounds.
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" In reality, indigent care already existed, but the burden went to the overarching state and federal schemes, not to individuals who might have "liked their plans and wanted to keep them.
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A policy advocate, organizer and attorney, he previously was a public defender with Bronx Defenders, a public defense nonprofit, and has litigated on behalf of indigent criminal defendants and undocumented immigrants.
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" The letter does not prescribe new policy and cites case law to back up mandates like "Courts must consider alternatives to incarceration for indigent defendants unable to pay fines and fees.
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An estimated 200 black people were killed by white people, according to Arkansas State Archives and the Equal Justice Initiative, an Alabama-based nonprofit that provides legal representation for indigent defendants.
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Still, patients suffering from toxoplasmosis say that the process to get the drug for free is too complicated for those battling a disorienting illness that disproportionately affects the homeless and indigent.
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Alleging a violation of indigent defendants' Sixth Amendment rights, the ACLU placed the blame for the failures of the public defense system on Louisiana's reliance on a "user-funded" funding model.
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The businesses coached their clients to deceive United States immigration officials and pay indigent rates at hospitals to deliver their babies, even though many of the clients were wealthy, investigators said.
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Mr. Zito, the special agent, said clients were advised to claim they lacked insurance, which entitled them to pay the indigent rate at whichever hospital they used to deliver their babies.
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"We need state-run mental institutions where people can actually go, [where] the indigent can go and get the help that they need," Allen said last month according to the Bee.
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But the piece underscores how, even when countries seek to shore up their criminal justice system and courts, often with American aid, developing public defenders for the indigent often is neglected.
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It's part of the Harris Health System, a network that offers an array of services to its indigent patients, including primary and specialty care, even chemotherapy, all at very low cost.
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Ms. Ginsberg, the lawyer, told me to email Deirdre von Dornum, the lead public defender at the federal defenders office in Brooklyn, which represents hundreds of indigent inmates at the jail.
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The victims of Islamophobia, racist policing, the school-to-prison pipeline and so on, can be black Muslims, they can be Latino Muslims, they can be indigent and working-class Muslims.
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"GOMERs don't die" is a phrase referring to the most difficult patients who repeatedly return to the ER. Often they are the elderly or indigent—the most vulnerable people in our society.
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In the lawsuit filed in state court in the state capital, Jefferson City, the ACLU said state's indigent defense budget is grossly inadequate, with an average of just $356 spent per case.
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Washington (CNN)The Justice Department issued new guidelines to state and municipal court systems aimed at preventing indigent defendants from being jailed because they're too poor to pay fines for minor infractions.
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A main provision is for those caught with low-level possession to complete a four-hour course on decision-making at a cost of $150, which will be waived for the indigent.
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All of this, even if successful beyond our hopes, does not erase the reality that there will always be the indigent, the elderly and those with medical challenges that cannot be overcome.
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At that time, Naipaul was an indigent student at University College, Oxford; he had arrived in England on a scholarship and had begun writing brief pieces for the BBC's Caribbean Voices program.
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This particular group of feral young things belongs to an indigent tribe ruled by the tyrannical and sadistic Monty Mae Maloney (Xanthe Paige), a woman with a smokin' body and Beyoncé moves.
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First, allow all individuals and employers to be able to choose Medicare as their insurer, setting premiums to allow a reserve pool to cover the unemployed, disabled, working poor and indigent elderly.
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Law student Alyssa Leader's Twitter timeline was filled with tweets earlier this month by immigration and indigent defense attorneys overwhelmed by a sudden surge in client need stemming from the coronavirus outbreak.
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Mr. Cuomo also balked at a provision that would give what he considers too much power to the Office of Indigent Legal Services, the agency responsible for setting statewide public-defense standards.
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In 1932, when he was about 1503, the single Mr. Curry moved into a home for the older indigent run by the Little Sisters of the Poor at 213 East 70th Street.
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"One of our ways of giving back to the community of Naples is we offer free funeral services to any indigent or homeless veterans," funeral director Michael Hoyt told CNN on Monday.
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The Times found cases where defendants who were not being prosecuted paid a $400 drug lab fee, a $50 Crime Stoppers fee or $2,000 for the services of an indigent defense lawyer.
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One stop on their itinerary was the Hogar Seguro (Safe Home) Virgen de la Asunción, a shelter for indigent children, which had been the subject of reports about sexual abuse, violence and overcrowding.
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Once considered a billionaire but later declared indigent, Stanford, 69, was convicted of fraud by a Houston jury in 2012 over what prosecutors called a $7.2 billion Ponzi scheme that lasted two decades.
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America's public hospitals are the creation of local governments, many chartered over a century ago with a mission to care for indigent patients in return for some level of support from local taxes.
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But let's stop think about how those records get generated: If I get arrested, I have a right to an attorney, and if I'm indigent, I have a right to a public attorney.
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The Legislature passed a bill that aims to ensure equal access to legal representation for the poor by reimbursing counties for indigent legal services, drawing praise from the New York Civil Liberties Union.
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While working for Mr. Sanders, he went to Georgetown law school, where he met his wife, Barbara Butterworth, 49, who shares his progressive politics and is a criminal defense lawyer for indigent clients.
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Prosecutors and public defenders are very often the two sides in court, since more than 80 percent of people charged with a felony are indigent and therefore likely to receive a public defender.
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That's Marx as in Karl, indigent and randy at 32, and embodied by that fine actor Rory Kinnear as a selfish giant of a genius in this "Carry On, Anti-Capitalists" bio-comedy.
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The Funding Attorneys for Indigent Removal (FAIR) Proceedings Act "would ensure that some of the most vulnerable individuals in this process can be represented by an attorney," Gillibrand said in a statement Friday.
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As a judge in the Southern District, she worked closely with a mentoring program that seeks to increase diversity among lawyers appointed for indigent defendants, said Anthony L. Ricco, one of the directors.
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Flanked by a motorcycle escort, the Patriot Guard Riders, the hearses headed east on a 90-minute trip to Calverton, where so far this year about three dozen indigent vets have been interred.
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The people who enter it are frequently indigent, addicted, or mentally ill, and being in it has far-reaching effects on their futures and on the lives of their children, families and communities.
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Court-appointed private lawyers who represent indigent defendants have been working without pay since late December, according to the Administrative Office of the United States Courts, which provides support for the court system.
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A lawsuit filed in 22014 by the Equal Justice Initiative, a nonprofit that litigates on behalf of indigent inmates, blamed the overcrowding problem for high levels of violence across the state prison system.
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For those who are indigent and without a support system, advocates must be appointed who can meet them at the courts to help explain the process, possibly reducing stress and mental health deterioration.
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These days international donors and charities are much more excited about other approaches, including mobile money and "graduation" programmes, which give livestock to indigent people and teach them how to take care of them.
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Back in the day, Jed's mother was a tireless committeewoman of the civil rights movement, taking indigent women into her house, while insisting on achievement for her sons, and particularly for the gifted Cello.
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In some strict and moderately strict states, photo and non-photo ID forms are requested, but for people who are indigent or have religious objections to being photographed, there are exceptions to the requirements.
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On February 4th, the Federal Defenders of New York—a non-profit organisation of lawyers who represent indigent inmates charged with federal crimes—sued the Federal Bureau of Prisons and MDC's warden, Herman Quay.
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In health care, it is often the uninsured and indigent who receive bills with the full "chargemaster" fee — the wildly inflated prices that nobody really pays — while large insurance companies get the biggest breaks.
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" The Atlantic's Conor Friedersdorf, meanwhile, argued that the "decision may deter ambitious young lawyers from undertaking the defense of any potentially controversial client, including indigent men who stand accused of rape or sexual assault.
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He chose Freedom House Detroit, a legacy organization in the city, and a well-known temporary home for indigent survivors of persecution from around the world, seeking asylum in the United States and Canada.
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Leo, the indigent sex worker (also played by Levine), whom Toby once summoned by app and then forgot about, is fleeing the Strand after being caught shoplifting, and collides with Toby on the sidewalk.
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That is the public defender model currently used by the New York Immigrant Family Unity Project, a model studied nationally that since 2013 has provided services primarily for indigent immigrants who have been detained.
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" In 2012, the Sixth Amendment Center noted that Louisiana's indigent defense system was the only one in the nation that "relies primarily on locally generated, nongovernment general fund appropriations to fund the right to counsel.
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Since the office represents about 85 percent of criminal defendants in New Orleans and nearly all defendants who are found to be indigent, the impact of the decision to decline new cases has been immediate.
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As a practicing lawyer myself who has, at times, defended indigent clients like Thomas Alfred Taylor, I can tell you that it is no fun working with criminal defendants, even under the best of circumstances.
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The result was the lowest public investment in the United States since the demobilization after World War II. Budgets for serious needs like infectious disease outbreaks or public defenders for the indigent were reduced indiscriminately.
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The bill would tap money from the state's commitment to human services and education assistance funds to direct $258 million to pay for dozens of programs, including senior meals and crime prevention, and indigent burials.
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Once states realized that they could substitute federally subsidized Medicaid for the more efficient state programs they formerly funded to help the medically indigent, "If it moves, Medicaid it" became the new state rallying cry.
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Branca pitched four more seasons and retired, and then he kept on carrying on, caring not just for his family but, as the president of the Baseball Alumni Team, for indigent old ballplayers as well.
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The Ferguson reform plan is a reminder of how far state and local courts have strayed from the law in this area, and it provides a clear route to restoring lost justice for the indigent.
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For decades, local boards set up to administer indigent defense were virtually autonomous and appointed by local judges; in one parish, the board consisted of an embalmer, a real-estate developer and a nightclub owner.
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This money would triple spending on indigent defense, especially if the grant was tied to pre-existing spending by local governments so they couldn't just cut their own spending one-for-one with the grant.
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Since the 1860s, Hart has been the final stop for New York's "indigent" population — homeless, stillborn babies, early victims of the AIDS epidemic, the "unclaimed," the poor, and the otherwise forgotten by the city government.
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Not only is the jail not a conducive environment to successfully treat people, but due to the severity of some individuals' disorders, those who are mostly indigent and homeless are unable to advocate for themselves.
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And when public defenders are this overworked, they get sloppy — making basic errors, like not informing clients about plea deals in time, that can lead to unnecessary months or years in prison for their indigent defendants.
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Justice Kavanaugh voted with Chief Justice John Roberts and his four liberal colleagues to refuse to take up the cases, preserving tens of thousands of indigent women's access to contraception and other services at Planned Parenthood.
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This Dickensian nightmare is all too common in the Bronx, according to a class-action lawsuit filed Tuesday in Federal District Court by the Bronx Defenders, which represents indigent clients, and by two private law firms.
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So advocates for prisoners and lawyers for indigent defendants say the idea that some defendants are able to stay out of jail because they have the means to finance a novel confinement plan is blatantly unfair.
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The anti-poverty programme it created, which involves giving assets and training to indigent women, has been copied by other charities and has been shown to work in countries as diverse as Ethiopia, Honduras and India.
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In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, he led an effort to change the system that provided legal defense for the indigent in New Orleans; the effort resulted in the release of thousands of wrongfully incarcerated inmates.
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Take just last week, in an egregious, mind-boggling example of Gideon's unrealized mandate in New Mexico, where a judge held the state's chief public defender in contempt for failing to provide lawyers for indigent defendants.
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There, he submitted an article to the law journal arguing that a local government-funded nonprofit that assisted indigent clients with filing lawsuits was helping freeloaders stay in their apartments , thereby raising rents for paying tenants.
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They point out that even though less than 1 percent of all criminal cases in Louisiana are capital murders, about a fifth of the state's indigent defense budget still goes to the attorneys who handle them.
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A federal appeals court has ruled that the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services improperly adopted a new policy in 2010 that reinterpreted how to calculate Medicaid payments to hospitals that treat high numbers of indigent patients.
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The United States is not a repatriation center where any indigent person in the world feels free to just walk in and assume that all of us will take care of all of them and their families.
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As for the truly indigent, the reason I didn't see them in Harare proper was because they were sequestered in high-density "townships" at the edges of the city—vast shanties where the economy was entirely informal.
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And in a sentencing memo this week, the government said Mr. Dwyer's motivation had been "a desire to enrich himself," citing his billings of about $500,000 from 2011 to 2014 from public funds used for indigent defense.
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World Vision, whose catalog includes farm animals that can be purchased for indigent families — you can make the donation in honor of someone — will feature living gifts for children to pet: goats, donkeys, sheep, rabbits and chickens.
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"We get letters from people in solitary who have no access to the library, from indigent prisoners and people who don't have anyone on the outside to send them anything, asking us for books," says Ms. Peterson.
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The Prison Policy Initiative analysis doesn't look solely at jails or prisons, instead taking a broader view at the other actors in the criminal justice system — courts, parole and probation agencies, prosecutors, indigent defense, and so on.
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The division, the Office for Access to Justice, began as an initiative in 2010 under former Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. to increase and improve legal resources for indigent litigants in civil, criminal and tribal courts.
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He previously served as vice president of programs and policy at the Constitution Project, and as special counsel for pro bono at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, where he represented indigent defendants in federal civil rights and immigration cases.
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The state of New Hampshire has agreed to pay an estimated $1.7 billion in reimbursements to settle a dispute with 26 hospitals over how they were compensated for treating high numbers of indigent patients, the hospitals' lawyers said.
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"As long as there is no option of sleeping indoors, the government cannot criminalize indigent, homeless people for sleeping outdoors on public property on the false premise that they had a choice in the matter," the panel concluded.
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"As long as there is no option of sleeping indoors, the government cannot criminalize indigent, homeless people for sleeping outdoors, on public property, on the false premise they had a choice in the matter," the appeals court said.
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Mr. Sullivan has largely built a career helping to overturn wrongful convictions, and he designed an indigent defense system in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina that resulted in the exoneration of thousands of people falsely convicted of crimes.
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" McWilliams was convicted of rape and murder in 1986, one year after the Supreme Court decided that indigent defendants are entitled to mental health experts to perform an exam and "assist in evaluation, preparation, and presentation of the defense.
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In January, in a suit brought in New Orleans, a federal judge agreed that the state was "failing miserably" in its duty to indigent defendants—85% of the total—but ruled that fixing the problem was the legislature's job.
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Correct the Disparity in Medicaid Reimbursement Traditional Medicaid covers the poor, elderly and indigent — the most vulnerable of our society — and on average federal reimbursement to states falls between 50 and 75 percent of the costs of their program.
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Most of the Little Sisters of the Sick Poor, like the exigent Sister Lucy and the loving, almost elfin Sister Jeanne, spend their days outside the convent in the service, as their name suggests, of the indigent and ailing.
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Shortly before the rules went into effect, on July 1, Burlison said that the city intends to shift the way ankle monitors are distributed and plans to establish a fund to help indigent defendants pay for their ankle bracelets.
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As a criminal defense attorney, working for the Minnesota Office of the Public Defender, for nearly 25 years, I saw many intelligent, dedicated, skilled and hard-working criminal defense attorneys who represent indigent clients for a public defender office.
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Perhaps most importantly, it kicked out the old head of the Office of the Pardon Attorney (a George W. Bush–era holdover who'd essentially sabotaged some clemency applications) and installed Deborah Leff, who had a background in indigent defense.
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And then in terms of taking care of the indigent, we have another whole system, and I can go ahead and explain it, but I don't have the time, but I'd be happy to if you give me some more time.
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" The report goes on to say that while 50 percent of offenders are deemed indigent, and therefore don't pay for their healthcare at the moment, "funding for an increased health care fee would be drawn from future trust fund deposits.
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The revised regulations do not replace it with a new standard, but they do limit recognition to non-profit organizations that provide legal services primarily to low-income and indigent clients and require accommodations for clients unable to pay the fees.
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The Public Defender's Office notes, although Cruz has already been found indigent by the court clerk and therefore eligible for a free lawyer, there may be funds from his mother's estate or a possible life insurance policy that would disqualify him.
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More broadly, wrote authors Suhas Gondi and Zirui Song of Harvard Medical School, private equity firms don't have the same incentives as academic and nonprofit hospitals to use revenue streams from private insurance to subsidize indigent care and medical research.
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In response, attorneys from the Southern Center for Human Rights and Equal Justice Under Law filed a class-action lawsuit on his behalf, which alleged that the city's fixed-dollar bail requirements violated the civil rights of indigent Americans like Walker.
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There was no doubt, the judge said, that he "broke the law" and had "crossed the line" for reasons that involved at some level both a desire for financial gain and zealous investigation and advocacy on behalf of indigent clients.
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Mr. Patton responded later on Wednesday that it was "undisputed that federal law enforcement are involved in detaining and questioning" Mr. Rahami, and that his office had decided to represent Mr. Rahami after determining that he qualified as an indigent defendant.
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The social system at the time, which came to be known as Elizabethan Poor Law, divided indigent adults into three groups: those who could work, those who could not, and those—the "idle poor"—who seemed not to want to.
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When public defenders are turning away indigent defendants and legal aid programs are closing their doors to families who can't afford a lawyer, we are establishing roadblocks to justice as our most vulnerable citizens try to shake the cycle of poverty.
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A private probation company in Tennessee is violating racketeering laws by jailing impoverished people who fail to pay court fines for traffic violations and misdemeanor offenses, and by refusing to waive fees for the indigent, according to a lawsuit filed Thursday.
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If a prisoner is considered indigent, meaning they don't have any money in their "trust fund"—the account that's used to pay for items like food and toilet paper—then they don't have to pay the $100 to receive health care.
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The Justice Department has traditionally left indigent defense up to the states, but the Obama administration, especially in its second term, has weighed in far more aggressively, often by filing "statements of interest" in local cases involving the right to counsel.
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Some jurisdictions hire indigent defense lawyers for their municipal courts on a per-case basis, while Sumter and other cities have fixed-rate annual contracts in which public defenders' offices receive a specific amount no matter how many clients they represent.
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Though an estimated four of every five criminal defendants in the United States use court-appointed lawyers or public defenders, many of the nation's indigent defense systems have been criticized as desperately inadequate, leading to false guilty pleas and overincarceration.
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On a weekday morning in early June, Ruben Garcia arrived at the Casa Oscar Romero building leased by Annunciation House, the hospitality center that he founded and that has served the indigent and immigrant community in El Paso, Texas, since 1978.
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Now, after a decade in operation, the founder of the Freedom Fund is set to announce a new and unprecedented effort: the nation's first fund designed to post bail for more than 150,103 indigent defendants being jailed across the country.
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The Great Society guaranteed health care coverage to the elderly and the medically indigent, ended legally sanctioned segregation, and made it possible for millions of younger Americans to attend colleges and universities, often for the first time in their families' history.
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A prior vehicle-theft conviction as a minor, along with his indigent family's inability to immediately produce the $900 necessary for bond, resulted in his incomprehensible pretrial detention of three years -- before the charges were ultimately dismissed for lack of evidence.
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The Fraternal Order of Police exists, in part, to defend these rights, not just for police officers, but for all citizens at every level, from the indigent living on the street to the President living in the White House. pic.twitter.com/sea0WYT4AD
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He is the son of Sandra L. Clark of Coventry, R.I., and Michael C. Clark of West Warwick, R.I. Mr. Clark's mother is the legal assistant in the Providence, R.I., branch of the Federal Public Defender, which serves indigent criminal defendants.
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The law successfully delivered about $5 million in additional cash to indigent defense offices around the state, including a $1.5 million boost for New Orleans, which has since ended its hiring freeze and reduced its wait list to essentially zero.
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Dr. Barbara Casper, a professor of medicine at the University of Louisville who operates a clinic that serves the indigent, including many former inmates, said the Affordable Care Act dropped the uninsured rate among her patients from about 50 percent to 5 percent.
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A brochure, guided tours and audio exhibits explain the cemetery's black section, which holds about 12,000 graves, and signs denote the black section and other areas at Oakland, which also includes a Jewish section and a mixed-race "Potter's Field" for indigent burials.
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The suit by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and other organizations is the latest development in the state's long-running feud over how much to spend on legal representation for indigent defendants that has pitted the public defender's office against multiple governors.
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But PDS had been established in the 1960s to serve as a national model of indigent defense, and my colleagues and I refused to fit the media stereotype: We cared down to our toes about the inequities of the criminal justice system.
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A second federal appeals court on Monday overturned a win for hospitals that serve high numbers of indigent patients in a dispute over supplemental payments by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and its Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
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But by 1972, Farragut was more than 80 percent black, and to fill the vacant units and house the city's growing indigent population, the city changed the guideline for income and work requirements, turning the projects from largely working-class to low-income.
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The measure builds on a 2014 legal settlement to a class-action lawsuit brought against the state by indigent defendants in five upstate counties, where defense services were so bad that defendants regularly spent months behind bars before even speaking to a lawyer.
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" In their summary of the opinion, the judges wrote, "As long as there is no option of sleeping indoors, the government cannot criminalize indigent, homeless people for sleeping outdoors, on public property, on the false premise they had a choice in the matter.
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Still, there were things the judge felt he could say: Both entities, he said, had consented to put a temporary hold on the policy of jailing indigent defendants, and incarceration in many cases would be replaced with payment plans or community-service opportunities.
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The exhibition statement highlights the "universal transformative potential of music," but I would not characterize the experience of listening in on personal conversations, usually between semi- to fully-indigent individuals and their estranged family members as "transformative" of that material, soothing tunes notwithstanding.
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Giving governments responsibility for the education of the young, pensions for the old, financial support for the indigent, disabled and jobless, and health care for at least some, and occasionally all, required massive reforms, the details and ambition of which varied in different places.
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In his dissent, Justice Samuel Alito, joined by Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Neil Gorsuch, expressed frustration about what he characterized as his colleagues' narrow, case-specific ruling, arguing that they should have decided the larger question: Are indigent defendants entitled to independent experts?
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Every year, the indigent fund of the county's seat — St. Maries, population 2,400, and Gannon's home — gets wiped out from covering the costs of the uninsured; every year, the local hospital's struggle to operate under the debt of providing uninsured care grows more precarious.
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From the instant that Marcos appears in "The Kingmaker" — gliding through the streets of Manila in a van as if in a mobile throne — it's obvious that she remains ravenous for attention, whether from the camera or from the indigent people clamoring outside her window.
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In the weeks since, when an indigent client charged with a serious crime has come their way, the attorneys have refused to take it on, cognizant that the alternative—accepting the case and not giving it their all—could deprive that client of justice.
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Before he bought the store, Mr. Arcángel said, he would ask the owner if the indigent men who stopped in to beg for change, coffee and muffins, could rest in the air-conditioned store in summer, or warm up inside when it was cold.
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And the featurists were running out of people to write about — running out of alcoholic actors, ne'er-do-well royals, depressive comedians, jailed rock stars, defecting ballet dancers, reclusive film directors, hysterical fashion models, indigent marquises, adulterous golfers, wife-beating footballers and rapist boxers.
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His body went to a city morgue, which for unclaimed bodies like Mr. Garcia's can serve as a purgatory before ignominious burials in unmarked mass graves in the potter's field that New York City operates for the indigent dead, on Hart Island near the Bronx.
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It is time for Congress to reform and modernize the 2202B program and restore its original intent of helping uninsured and indigent patients get access to low cost pharmaceuticals, instead of being an ATM for hospitals and contract pharmacies to boost their bottom lines.
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The new avenue of inquiry looks at a second source of money — the City College Fund, which is supposed to provide scholarships to indigent students, underwrite campus programs and organize alumni reunions — and it represents a notable expansion of an inquiry that began last summer.
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Now the headquarters of the Henry Street Settlement, this Lower East Side tenement was once the residence of Lillian Wald (1867-1940), a nurse and pioneering social reformer who moved there to carry out a program of home health care for the neighborhood's indigent immigrants.
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The legislation, signed by Democratic Governor John Bel Edwards in June 2016, required Louisiana's state-level indigent defense agency to spend more on the overloaded local defenders—the ones who handle regular felony and misdemeanor cases—by spending less on lawyers in death penalty cases.
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Maxime J. Rony, a lawyer hired by a local bar association to represent indigent residents who were arrested on Election Day in October, said he had interviewed jailed election monitors who were members of the governing party but were caught with multiple accreditations from different political parties.
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While the Department of Justice has historically left indigent defense for local and state governments to handle, the Obama administration made history by involving itself by filing "statements of interest" in places like Alabama, Georgia, Idaho, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Washington to improve access to courts.
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Between 2000 and 2012, New York City police officers arrested 70,000 people for violating the weapons law; based on a six-month sample reviewed by the Legal Aid Society, which represents indigent defendants, gravity knives account for more than two-thirds of arrests under the law.
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Back in the show's present day, Kim opts to join a corporate law firm, Schweikart & Cokely, as a partner — a middle-path solution that will allow her to service Mesa Verde and keep defending the indigent through the public defender's office, which is work she actually enjoys.
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The appeals court's ruling is limited to the 17 plaintiffs, all indigent ex-felons, but its reasoning applies to the vast majority of Floridians whose voting rights were restored by Amendment 4, most of whom are in a financial position similar to that of the plaintiffs.
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The South Orange, New Jersey, residents got the idea for their charity, Girls Helping Girls Period, when Emma learned that federal assistance programs for the indigent do not cover menstruation products, leaving many low-income and homeless women to cope with their cycles on their own.
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Ms. Watrous, 28, is a third-year law student at N.Y.U. In September, she is to begin a staff attorney fellowship at the Center for Appellate Litigation, a nonprofit organization that does appellate public defense and post conviction for indigent defendants in Manhattan and the Bronx.
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Ms. Watrous, 20153, is a third-year law student at N.Y.U. In September, she is to begin a staff attorney fellowship at the Center for Appellate Litigation, a nonprofit organization that does appellate public defense and post conviction for indigent defendants in Manhattan and the Bronx.
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Yehoshua Zvi Hershkowitz, who more than 40 years ago was so concerned that his indigent neighbors would go hungry for the Sabbath that he founded a kosher meals-on-wheels program, which has been imitated by Jewish communities around the world, died on Monday in Brooklyn.
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The plaintiffs in the case - prosecutors, a group that represents indigent defendants and a rights group - said people who feared being arrested by ICE agents were also unable to go to court to seek protection from a violent partner or make a complaint for unpaid wages.
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But the brand was growing, opening a rash of new stores (including the one in which the indigent person camped out in front or prompting Truaxe to say, "This person is disrespectful to the beauty of the library; he is disrespectful to the beauty of Fifth Avenue").
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I wondered at first about the use of the shopping cart — whether it had a consumerist angle — and then thought of how the homeless and indigent in New York City and other cities tend to keep their things in shopping carts, which function as makeshift lockers and suitcases.
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" In a 1995 book review in the Yale Free Press about a book called "In Defense of Elitism," Rao wrote that, "In this age of affirmative action, women's rights, special rights for the handicapped and welfare for the indigent and lazy, elitism is a forgotten and embarrassing concept.
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The court did not rule on the main question before them: whether indigent criminal defendants who may have a mental illness have the right to independent expert witnesses to testify in their defense, or whether court-appointed experts who offer findings to the prosecution and the defense are adequate.
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The following six items if appropriately addressed, would go a long way towards creating a truly affordable health care system in the United States: Pre-existing conditions and indigent care: Because this is the most difficult issue to resolve, it ought to be dealt with at the outset.
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Children can see live farm animals here, including goats, alpacas and sheep; explore a Mongolian ger, a type of shelter; help pack a care kit for an indigent family; and put on a virtual-reality headset to see the world through the eyes of Cheru, a Kenyan girl.
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Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo plans to ask the New York State Legislature to eliminate cash bail for many crimes and to speed up the disclosure of evidence in trials as part of a package of proposals intended make the criminal justice system fairer for indigent defendants, his aides said.
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There is the indigent immigrant boy who insists that Christian apologize to him when the curator wrongs him; or the woman who accosts Christian for a sandwich at a local shop; or the man who helps Christian find his children in a mall when they are momentarily lost.
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This is especially the case for those with close relatives who need assistance and would otherwise be an enormous burden in one of the 29 states that have "filial responsibility" laws on the books that make it the responsibility of adult children to care for their indigent parents.
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With scores of ailing newcomers arriving, many of them indigent or new to the United States, the local Jewish community responded by creating state-of-the-art treatment centers, starting with the National Jewish Hospital for Consumptives in 1899, and later with the Jewish Consumptives Relief Society in 1904.
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"The defendants' constitutional rights are not contingent on budget demands, waiting lists and the failure of the Legislature to adequately fund indigent defense," wrote Hunter, who asserted that the seven inmates had been denied both their Sixth Amendment right to adequate counsel and Fourteenth Amendment right to due process.
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Their jailhouse plight is at least partly the result of the well-intentioned shutdown of many big state psychiatric hospitals several decades ago, once deemed "snake pits," leaving municipal jails like Rikers in New York and Cook County in Chicago to fill the void of mental healthcare for the indigent.
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In the later years of his life, Jess served as Vice-President for the National Sports Alliance Fund for Indigent Boxers in New York State and in 1954, he died at the age of seventy-two of a cerebral hemorrhage, which struck him while attending a wrestling match in Queens.
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Ben Carson, a losing 2016's Republican presidential candidate who believes poverty is a choice, and who once said it's the responsibility of the people, not the government, "to take care of the indigent in our society," was approved this morning as the new secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
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When she came back to her native borough last week for an Evening of Conversation at the Bronx Defenders, a nonprofit organization on East 161st Street that provides attorneys for about half the indigent defendants in the Bronx, the executive director, Robin Steinberg, greeted her and nearly fainted to see her, live and in person.
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In op-eds reviewed by BuzzFeed News that Rao wrote between 1994 and 1996 — she graduated from Yale University in 1995 — she described race as a "hot, money-making issue," affirmative action as the "anointed dragon of liberal excess," welfare as being for "for the indigent and lazy," and LGBT issues as part of "trendy" political movements.
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In pieces reviewed by BuzzFeed News that Rao wrote between 1994 and 1996 — she graduated from Yale University in 1995 — she described race as a "hot, money-making issue," affirmative action as the "anointed dragon of liberal excess," welfare as being for "for the indigent and lazy," and LGBT issues as part of "trendy" political movements.
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The Department of Justice under Jeff SessionsJefferson (Jeff) Beauregard SessionsDOJ should take action against China's Twitter propaganda Lewandowski says he's 'happy' to testify before House panel The Hill's Morning Report — Trump and the new Israel-'squad' controversy MORE could do the same with indigent defense and require more than just one Texas county to try a voucher system.
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While all of this was going on, the Supreme Court was in the midst of a revolution in its own jurisprudence, recognizing a constitutional right on the part even of indigent criminal defendants to pursue appeals of their convictions and sentences, and invigorating a raft of new substantive constitutional protections that could be invoked in such appeals.
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In recent years, the Southern Poverty Law Center and other organizations, including the A.C.L.U. and Karakatsanis's Civil Rights Corps, have been filing class-action lawsuits against dozens of courts across the South and Midwest and West, arguing that local courts, in jailing indigent defendants, are violating the Supreme Court rulings laid down in Williams, Tate and Bearden.
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When honorably discharged, homeless or indigent veterans die in New Mexico, the Forgotten Heroes Burial Program provides a full military funeral at Santa Fe National Cemetery if there are no family members or friends to claim their remains or there is no money to provide for their funeral services, according to the New Mexico Department of Veterans' Services.
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"Context 958 was probably an inmate of the Hospital of St John, a charitable institution which provided food and a place to live for a dozen or so indigent townspeople—some of whom were probably ill, some of whom were aged or poor and couldn't live alone," noted John Robb, a professor from Cambridge University's Division of Archaeology, in a statement.
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The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a ruling for the Missouri Hospital Association by a federal judge in Missouri, who last year blocked a 2017 regulation under which supplemental payments to so-called Disproportionate Share Hospitals for "costs incurred" in treating indigent patients must be offset by amounts the hospital received for their treatment from Medicare and private insurers.
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But since then, Mr. Rahami's father had asked the office to represent his son, who had been found to be eligible as an indigent defendant, Mr. Liguori said In the court filing, Mr. Liguori said he was formally entering his appearance in the case, the latest twist in a flurry of unusual activity to secure legal representation for Mr. Rahami.
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" He added: "The rest of the world in general and Britain in particular are prone to point an angrily critical finger at American intolerance, forgetting that in its short history as a nation it has granted to its Negro citizens more opportunities for advancement and betterment, per capita, than any other nation in the world with an indigent Negro population.
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A director uncommonly sensitive to streetscapes and parks, Iosseliani's dismay with increased policing and privatization of public space is palpable, as he films conflict between the indigent and the authorities with uncommon frankness while also indulging reveries about the possibility of escape — into a handmade home of one's own or, in the film's most surreal sequences, through an elysian courtyard replete with nymph and stork.
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Broadly speaking, these books — which include Ta-Nehisi Coates's "Between the World and Me"; Mychal Denzel Smith's "Invisible Man, Got the Whole World Watching"; and "The Fire This Time," an anthology edited by Jesmyn Ward, to name a few — mostly address the experience of anyone with black or brown skin, though they occasionally mention the indigent and those fleeing persecution elsewhere in the world.
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During his nearly 2180-year tenure as chief justice, the Supreme Court ruled, in Brown v Board of Education, that segregation was unlawful; in Gideon v Wainwright, that states must provide attorneys to indigent criminal defendants; in Miranda v Arizona, that police must inform suspects that they have the right to an attorney and to remain silent; and, in Reynolds v Sims, that legislative districts within a state must comprise roughly equal populations.
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While Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpPossible GOP challenger says Trump doesn't doesn't deserve reelection, but would vote for him over Democrat O'Rourke: Trump driving global, U.S. economy into recession Manchin: Trump has 'golden opportunity' on gun reforms MORE may disagree that the criminally charged deserve a competent lawyer, tackling the nation's problem of Indigent criminal defense is one of the best ways for his administration to demonstrate how free market principles can salvage a system.
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