Indigent Defense Resource Roundup

Here are links to some excellent resources found in the Texas Indigent Defense Commission winter newsletter that Grits wanted to preserve for my own purposes:

• See a press release and Texas Judicial Council resolution supporting recommendations from the Timothy Cole Exoneration Review Commission.
• See a four-page primer on the Texas Fair Defense Act created for Texas legislators and staff.
• See the Judicial Council's recommendations regarding legislation governing pretrial decision making practices.
• From the Criminal Justice Policy Program at Harvard Law School, "Moving Beyond Money: A Primer on Bail Reform"
• Here's a toolkit for public defenders from the National Legal Aid and Defender Association on how and why to increase defenders' analytical capacity, .
• See meeting materials from a Mental Health Roundtable hosted by TIDC in November.
• TIDC has added a Juvenile Addendum and an Appellate Addendum to its criminal defense lawyer caseload data.  See also a power-point presentation from TIDC on Texas' "smart defense data portal."
• From the Bureau of Justice Statistics: State­ Administered Indigent Defense Systems, 2013 report and summary document.