TITLE 19

CRIMINAL PROCEDURE

CHAPTER 60

STATE PUBLIC DEFENDER ACT [EFFECTIVE JULY 1, 2024]

19-6017.  Application of chapter — State courts — Federal courts. [effective july 1, 2024] This chapter applies only to representation in the courts of this state, except that it does not prohibit a defending attorney from representing an indigent person in a federal court of the United States, if:

(1)  The matter arises out of or is related to an action pending or recently pending in a court of criminal jurisdiction of the state; or

(2)  Representation is under a plan of the United States district court as required by the criminal justice act of 1964, 18 U.S.C. 3006A, and is approved by the state public defender.

History:

[(19-6017) 19-865, added 1967, ch. 181, sec. 15, p. 599; am. 2013, ch. 220, sec. 13, p. 520; am. 2014, ch. 97, sec. 4, p. 269; am. and redesig. 2023, ch. 220, sec. 13, p. 673.]