A DEFENSE ATTORNEY’S ETHICAL RESPONSIBILITIES IN A SPECIALTY COURT Paper by Morgan Shell Presentation by Scott Ehlers (Texas Indigent Defense Commission) and Trudy Strassburger (Capital Area Private Defender Service, Travis County)
WHY DOES THE INTERSECTION OF AN ATTORNEY’S ETHICAL OBLIGATIONS AND SPECIALTY COURTS MATTER?
THE EVOLUTION OF PROBLEM SOLVING AND SPECIALTY COURTS
DEFENSE BAR’S RESPONSE TO PROBLEM - SOLVING COURTS
DUE PROCESS CONSIDERATIONS IN SPECIALTY COURT
DUE PROCESS CONSIDERATIONS IN SPECIALTY COURT Pre-Adjudication v. Post-Adjudication
CONSIDERATIONS IN DESIGNING A SPECIALTY COURT
ETHICAL CONSEQUENCES OF ABSENT ATTORNEYS
WHAT DOES ZEALOUS ADVOCACY MEAN?
MEETING CLIENTS’ NON-LEGAL NEEDS IN SPECIALTY COURTS Mental Health The Poverty Trauma Client Substance Abuse
QUESTION 1 Mr. Jones has a dirty urine. The team wants to put him in jail for 5 days. What should the defense lawyer do?
QUESTION 2 Your client is compliant when not taking medications, and his criminal offense did not occur because he wasn’t on his medications. However, the doctor at his facility has prescribed him traditional medications for his diagnosis. Your client tells you that he won’t take the medications because the side effects make him sick. The team wants to violate him for not taking his meds. What do you do?
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