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As Life Without Parole Cases Rise, Finding Public Defenders Grows Harder  

The Crime Report

Most states have no rules, and someone just out of law school could handle a life-without-parole case in Illinois or Nebraska. South Carolina requires just three years of experience in criminal law; Arkansas specifies that lawyers should have handled at least one homicide trial. Other states have minimal standards.

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ABA Midyear Meeting 2019

LegalTalkNetwork

District Court for the Western District of Arkansas about their meetings, who attends, issues discussed, and what they are learning. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri Barbara Bavis – legal reference librarian at Law Library of Congress Judge Tim Brooks – Federal Judge of the U.S. Baker of the U.S.