Family Court Feud: Public Defenders for CPS Cases?

Two civil court judges hope to ensure better legal representation for indigent families

"...provide higher quality and more expedient legal representation for indigent parents and their children and would cost less than..."

Aug. 29, 2008 News Feature by Laurel Chesky

Planned Clinic Pits Neighbors Against Health District

Many residents were unaware of proposed clinic until they read about it in the newspaper

"...they say is too far north to serve the indigent population in North Austin (they say the clinic should..."

Aug. 15, 2008 News Feature by Lydia Crafts

A Dose of Integrity for Texas Criminal Justice

The Court of Criminal Appeals has created an Integrity Unit – but can the CCA really be part of the solution when it's so much a part of the problem?

"...myriad problems: improving the quality of lawyers provided to indigent defendants, implementing procedures to improve eyewitness identification (an insidious..."

June 27, 2008 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Beyond City Limits

"...Supreme Court ruled that Texas must provide counsel to indigent defendants upon arrest and not wait until indictment. Upon..."

June 27, 2008 News Feature

Naked City

"...branch was not.) The settlement must be spent on indigent care, and a portion of the money will go..."

Jan. 4, 2008 News Feature

Texas Fair Defense Project Prevails Over WilCo in Court

Texas Supreme Court's Unauthorized Practice of Law Com­mit­tee rejects 'secret' complaint filed by William­son County Attorney's Office against Texas Fair Defense Project

"...a class-action lawsuit alleging that the county systematically deprives indigent defendants of their constitutional right to court-appointed counsel, that..."

Dec. 7, 2007 News Feature by Patricia J. Ruland

Tort-Reform Folly

According to new report on state's tort-reform measures, Perry's promise that frivolous lawsuits and high medical-malpractice insurance rates for docs are down and that the recruitment of specialists is apparently on the rise are promises that haven't panned out

"...problem, Winslow suspects, is that smaller counties with higher indigent populations and less up-to-date technology are hard-pressed to lure..."

Feb. 16, 2007 News Feature by Jordan Smith

WilCo, Texas Fair Defense Project Duke It Out

WilCo attempting to discredit TFDP by alleging ethics violations in complaint pending before Texas Supreme Court's Unauthorized Practice of Law Committee

"...filed in June 2006, accusing the county of depriving indigent defendants of their right to court-appointed counsel and of..."

Feb. 2, 2007 News Feature by Patricia J. Ruland

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...by $1.2 million from the Texas Task Force on Indigent Defense – is to make legal counsel more accessible..."

April 21, 2006 News Feature

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...working diligently to improve the quality of representation for indigent capital murder defendants. Current standards are inadequate and actually..."

April 15, 2005 Column

State Rep. Keel Responds

"...working diligently to improve the quality of representation for indigent capital murder defendants. Current standards are inadequate and actually..."

April 11, 2005 Postmarks

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...Service, who will work to ensure adequate representation for indigent defendants. For a complete list of OSI fellows, see..."

March 4, 2005 News Feature by Lee Nichols

13 Going on 30

Magic wishing dust allows Jennifer Garner to completely skip over her teens and twenties.

"...older woman. Winick is one of the founders of InDigEnt Films, the digital production company whose titles include Richard..."

April 23, 2004 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Hospital District Campaign Ready to Roll

Backers and opponents gear up for a May 15 vote on a Travis Co. health care taxing district

"...not only help pay for health care for the indigent but also for those who are gainfully employed but..."

March 12, 2004 News Feature by Amy Smith

Boxcar Satan

Record Review

"...Boxcar SatanUpstanding and Indigent (Dogfingers) The blues may have been born in the..."

Feb. 27, 2004 Music Review by Greg Beets

What They Saw at the 69th Lege

The issues facing Texas, then and (still) now

"...Brad Wright, chairing the committee charged with considering an indigent health care bill, suggested that poor people be sterilized...."

Feb. 27, 2004 News Feature by Michael King

Will Women Have a Voice at the New Women's Hospital?

Issues of choice and midwifery still perplex women using Brack's hospital-within-a-hospital.

"...open in January to provide the reproductive services for indigent women that Seton, under a directive from the Catholic..."

Nov. 14, 2003 News Feature by Amy Smith

Midwives: From L.A. to Santa Fe

The legal state of midwifery (Chronicle reprint from 1993)

"...Her clients at the Gentle Birth Center range from indigent women to millionaires. And although she works with several..."

Nov. 14, 2003 News Feature by Robert Bryce

Naked City

Texas still has a ways to go to ensure fairness in death penalty cases

"...appeal judicial decisions regarding their pay for work on indigent cases. Further, Travis Co. is part of the state's..."

Nov. 14, 2003 News Feature by Jordan Smith

The People Person

Peter Hedges' Pieces of April brings the novelist-screenwriter out of the quiet and into the filmmaking fray.

"...finished film, with funding from the all-digital production company InDigEnt, crackles with the sort of dark, personal, and aggrieved..."

Nov. 7, 2003 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Naked City

Keel Brings Back Bad Bills

"...for ensuring the competency of court-appointed appeal attorneys to indigent defendants -- a proposal that reformers say doesn't do..."

July 4, 2003 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Capitol Chronicle

The people advising state government "belt-tightening" never seem to have very tight belts.

"...of Health may cut back on providing drugs for indigent AIDS and HIV+ patients -- because the program is..."

Feb. 14, 2003 News Column by Michael King

The Custody Battle at Brackenridge

Seton's plan to build its own pediatrics facility throws a monkey wrench into the proposed hospital district.

"...wants to see Children's at Brack become solely the indigent hospital. "It's very important not to split this up..."

Nov. 22, 2002 News Feature by Amy Smith

Seton vs. Hospital District?

"...-- a city-county plan to share the cost of indigent health care...."

Nov. 1, 2002 News Feature by Amy Smith

Something Short of Miraculous

Months in the making, the city's plan to maintain reproductive services at Brack still raises questions.

"...-- especially since Seton is paying the bill for indigent health care that would otherwise be the city's responsibility...."

Jan. 11, 2002 News Feature by Lauri Apple

Questions Persist About Yogurt Shop Murders

Pretrial suspended in Michael Scott yogurt shop murder trial

"...when Diaz asked Lynch for a continuance, citing just-passed indigent defense laws requiring poor defendants to be assigned two..."

Sept. 28, 2001 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Autumn Tale

What Movies Look Like This Fall

"...school friends. Tape was made under the auspices of InDigEnt, a Dogma-inspired, DV-only collective that insists all of its..."

Sept. 21, 2001 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

Naked City

The city's "hospital within a hospital" plan for reproductive services at Brack fails to satisfy.

"...Dunkerley, who has praised Seton for its quality of indigent care...."

Aug. 31, 2001 News Feature by Lauri Apple

Capitol Chronicle

Surveying the George W. Bush Legacy in Texas

"...cumulatively flawed from the ground up: Prosecutions are arbitrary, indigent defense imaginary, the appeals process (culminating in the hanging..."

March 16, 2001 News Column by Michael King

Justice Delayed?

A federal judge's decision on Medicaid angers GOP legislators

"...government covers more than half the expense of treating indigent children who often show up in emergency rooms, where..."

Sept. 22, 2000 News Feature by Louis Dubose

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