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Segment 1: Indigent Defense
If you're out of money and you're arrested. You know you have constitutional rights, but what do you do? To make sure that our constitutional obligations are met to the citizens of the country we provide public defenders public defenders are people who are appointed by the court to defend your innocence because our system of government assumes that someone is innocent until proven guilty.
There are some problems with that system; however, like how do you fund it, what is fair and equitable, what are the standards of the people that provide that defense. It's a complicated issue but it's one that we are going to tackle today on the county seat.
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Segment 2: Indigent Defense Round Table Pt. 1
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.
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Segment 3: Indigent Defense Round Table Pt. 2
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.
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Segment 4: Indigent Defense Round Table Pt. 3
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.
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