Derek Dowsett is the Producer of the County Seat. Now entering his 11th season of the program, he has received what he considers a "Crash Course" in County Government.

Jared Eldridge, the Juab County attorney, Darcy Goddard, the legal director for the ACLU of Utah, and Richard Mauro is on the Supreme Court task force on indigent defense join Chad Booth at the round table to discuss the challenges that indigent defense creates for the counties. Major issues that present themselves include: having a pool of lawyers that are properly qualified to provide indigent defense (especially in rural Utah). Utah is also one of only two states that doesn’t provide any state funding to indigent defense.