Defense Attys: - Sentencing Law and Policy

On June 14, 2001, Governor Rick Perry signed the Texas Fair Defense Act into law. The Act places the oversight responsibility for selection of attorneys to represent indigent defendants wholly within the judiciary in accordance with the United States Constitution and recognized in Gideon v. Wainwright, 372 U.S. 355 (1963) and Argersinger v. ................
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