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Indigent Defense requests recurring staff funding and a $5.6 million grant to pilot 3-tier case management
Summary
Hugh Ryan, director of the Indigent Defense Commission, asked the Criminal Justice Budget Subcommittee for recurring staff and IT funding and proposed a $5.6 million grant program to support a three-tier system prosecutors and public defenders say speeds case processing.
Hugh Ryan, director of the Indigent Defense Commission, told the Criminal Justice Budget Subcommittee his agency is asking for recurring staff and information-technology positions and a grant program to support a three-tier case-management model the state Supreme Court encouraged in a February 2023 docket-management order.
Ryan described the commission as a large manager of defense services with about 72 FTEs in central staff and oversight of more than 500 attorneys. "We manage over 500 and something lawyers," he said, noting the agency counts public defenders and contract attorneys together for capacity planning. Ryan said the recent funding increase allowed the agency to raise public…
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