It appeared to be an innocuous bill aimed at ensuring indigent criminal defendants are appointed capable attorneys in a timely manner. But when Texas trial judges got a look at a heavily amended bill passed late in the state's legislative session, it caused a judicial uproar. The bill strips trial judges of broad powers to appoint attorneys for poor people in jail. The judges have turned to Gov. George W. Bush, urging him to veto the legislation, between presidential campaign whistlestops.
June 14, 1999 at 12:00 AM
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It appeared to be an innocuous bill aimed at ensuring indigent criminal defendants are appointed capable attorneys in a timely manner.
But when state trial judges got a look at the heavily amended SB 247, sponsored by Sen. Rodney Ellis and passed late in the legislative session, it caused a judicial uproar.
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