Commission Seeks Standards for Court Appointed Defense Lawyers in Michigan

In an interview with Michigan Radio, 55th District Court Judge Tomas Boyd of the Michigan Indigent Defense Commission discussed the first set of proposed minimum standards for indigent defense delivery systems that are currently pending in the Michigan Supreme Court as well as findings from a court system survey conducted by the Commission that was released in February:

“There are 111 district courts within those 83 counties, 58 circuit courts, each of them has a different way to do this,” said Boyd. “There is no consistency across the system. So what the legislature intends to do, and what Gov. Rick Snyder intends to do, is to establish a layer of minimum standards that every system needs to rise up to.”

The entire interview is online and available for listening on Michigan Radio’s website.