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Senate Bill 1308 |
Senate Author: Seliger |
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Effective: 9-1-11 |
House Sponsor: McClendon et al. |
Senate Bill 1308 amends the Code of Criminal Procedure to require the local selection committee in an administrative judicial region that adopts standards for the qualifications of attorneys appointed to represent indigent defendants in death penalty cases to make a determination, at the request of an attorney, regarding an attorney's current ability to provide effective representation following a judicial finding that the attorney previously rendered ineffective assistance of counsel in a capital case. The bill requires a local selection committee to amend its standards by a certain date as necessary to conform with this requirement and creates an exception to a certain related standard for qualification as a trial attorney in a capital case or appeal if a local selection committee makes a certain determination regarding the conduct underlying the judicial finding.