Since late 2012, the Nutter administration has been trying to establish an organization to represent indigent defendants when the Public Defender’s Office has a conflict. Now the only candidate for the contract is the defender’s office itself.
However, Philadelphia City Councilman-at-large Dennis O’Brien, who had been an opponent of the original for-profit conflict-counsel model pushed by the administration—a model that has been scuttled—said City Council is blocked from reviewing any potential contract issued to the Defender Association of Philadelphia. This has prompted O’Brien to propose legislation, which he said he plans to introduce today, giving City Council oversight in previously exempted areas of indigent-defense contracts.
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