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Resources: Public Defense

PDSC Commission Meeting Calendar

For information about Office of Public Defense Services Commission meetings contact Laura Anson, Office of Public Defense Services, (503) 378-3349, ext 245, Laura.J.Anson@opds.state.or.us. The Office of Public Defense Services Commission will provide equal access and accommodation to individuals with disabilities to ensure attendance and participation at its meetings. Any individual requiring access or accommodation may call (503) 378-3349.

Meeting notices can also be found on the Public Defense Services Commission website.

Thursday, March 4, 2010
10:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Room 357
State Capitol, Salem

Thursday, April 22, 2010
10:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Offices of the Oregon State Bar, Tigard

Thursday, June 17, 2010
Bend
Time and exact location TBA.

Thursday, August 5, 2010
10:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m., Salem
Exact location TBA.

Thursday, October 22, 2010
Time and location TBA.

December, 2010
Date, location and time TBA.


Resources

Reports

go ABA — Eight Guidlines of Public Defense Related to Excessive Workload

go Is This Equal Justice? 2003 Supplement Report by Kristine Constans, Human Resources Manager, Metropolitan Public Defenders Office

go September 2003 Report to the Public Defense Services Commission — Recommendations to Improve Oregon’s Public Defense Contracting System, prepared by Peter Ozanne and Geoff Guilfoy

go May 2002 Operational Review of Oregon’s Public Defense System

go Report of the House Judiciary Committee on the Management of Extraordinary Expenses in the Indigent Defense System

go Significant Documents and Events in the Indigent Defense Fiscal Crisis, presented by Paul Levy, June 19, Annual Conference 2003

 
Guidelines

go PDSC Revised Drug Court Guidelines

 
Forms

go Model Public Defense Legal Services Contract

go Out-of-State Subpoena Process

go Out-of-State Subpoena Checklist

go Notice to All Public Defense Providers Regarding Electronic Deposit

 
Other

go Judge Hogan’s Opinion in Shepard v. Bearden, issued Friday, May 16, just hours after argument and minutes after the close of business

go Shepard v. Bearden, April 7, 2003—Complaint for Declatory Relief

go Indigent Defense Budget Reduction Plan: Fact Sheet

go Senate Bill 145 (legislation creating The Public Defense Commission)

go Indigent Defense Standards and Guidelines for Various States, Including Oregon

go 2003 Fiscal Crisis Documents. Log-in to the OCDLA Legal Document Library to access documents used for filing constutitutional challenges arising from Oregon’s fiscal crisis in public defense. Choose the 2003 Fiscal Crisis category.