Show Davis Has Responsibility To Defend Poor In Court By LE ANN BLODGETT I The county has a legal responsibility to defend the poor in criminal How they do it is up for study and will probably be decided after January 1st when new county attorney Duffy Palmer is sworn 1 WILLIAM GOSSETT of the Utah Public Defenders Office has presented a contract that is being studied by the The public defender's which is a private provides due process of law for clients-attempting to the county tax dollars by providing it at a lower USE the benefit of our experience n such things as waiving preliminary Hearings or resolving cases before they become legal says new attorneys spend more than necessary on court he pointed out because they don't have the experience to expedite it or because they fan exploit the opportunity to make a larger SPEND a lot of time trying to get t people in trouble to with agencies can put them in a position to undergo Jome kind of he says told the commission some of his philosophy concerning commit wrongs because they have some kind of social It is wasteful to spend money to defend them and not utilize agencies to make changes in their II IS CONTRACT offer would also provide defense for County has no defense services for juveniles at the present says Wanda Chairwoman of the juvenile Advisory Davis has been providing indigent court costs on a case-by-case basis in the In 1973 they spent It was down in 1974 to Gossett named a figure of for the coming THE ECONOMICAL advantage of a predetermined fee would not be known until the end of the Jt will be determined by the number and cost of indigent court An involved murder trial adds much The Northern Utah Public Defenders Office began in Weber County and was expanded to include Box Elder and now possibly THE OGDEN H Fi Shop murder trial was paid for by the Davis could become a of Salt Lake County if a move to establish a Wasatch Front public defender's office according to He sees this as a disadvantage for and compared it to federal |