RPDO FY2014 Summary
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01 Dec 2014
Judgment and Justice
"This study finds that the Texas Regional Public Defender for Capital Cases (RPDO) increases access, improves quality, and reduces costs of death penalty representation in small to mid-sized counties."
01 Jun 2013
Making a Case for Itself
"Fortunately, Reeves County is located in the seventh judicial region, and its commisioners court had signed on to be a member of the West Texas Regional Public Defender for Capital Cases, which billed itself as a type of 'murder insurance.'"
01 Nov 2011
Murder Insurance
"'None of them or anybody on the court could ever remember having a capital murder case,' Farmer said. 'That's a million dollars we don’t have. We would have had to borrow some money.'
"But through some supreme fortune, the county had just signed on to a new pilot program, a regional capital public defender's office..."
04 Mar 2010
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Regional Public Defenders for Capital Cases
PO Box 2097Lubbock, Texas 79408
Tel. (806) 696-3740Fax. (806) 696-3750