At their regular study session meeting Sept. 28, Airway Heights City Council members agreed to forward an ordinance changing how the city’s municipal court manages its public defender cases to the council’s next regular meeting, Oct. 5.
If approved, ordinance C863 would allow the court to adopt a case weighting system for misdemeanor cases handled by the public defender. The ordinance would keep the city in compliance with a state Supreme Court order to limit public defender cases in order to allow attorneys to properly provide defense services for indigent individuals without taking on too mu...
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