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CLEVELAND — The Greater Cleveland Congregations is concerned that some low-income juvenile offenders are not receiving the quality legal representation they deserve in Cuyahoga County Juvenile Court.
Data analyst Cid Standifer pointed to two reports from The Marshall Project and The Wren Collective, which cited state reimbursement data that indicated that in one year, Cuyahoga Juvenile Court judges steered two-thirds of cases involving juveniles accused of crimes to just 10 lawyers and that the court is underutilizing the public defender.
Standifer also believes the current system that allows judges to assign attorneys carries a conflict of interest issue. “A little over a year ago the juvenile judges made an informal agreement to give about 40% of the cases to the public defenders office, but they haven’t actually changed the rules," Wallace said. “We need number one that the process is fair, that the judges are following state code about who should be assigning the attorneys in an unbiased way, and number two, we want to make sure that the attorneys being assigned to represent our kids are actually qualified to do it.
“The commission needs to act carefully because withholding reimbursement funds could end up harming the quality of representation for indigent Ohioan’s charged with a crime. As the commission heard at its last quarterly commission meeting, there is lots of data, numerous variables, and multiple layers to this issue, and we will do our best to work through it.
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