TITLE 19

CRIMINAL PROCEDURE

CHAPTER 60

STATE PUBLIC DEFENDER ACT

19-6012.  Qualifications of counsel. No person may be given the primary responsibility of representing an indigent person unless he is licensed to practice law in this state and is otherwise competent to counsel and defend a person charged with a crime.

History:

[(19-6012) 19-855, added 1967, ch. 181, sec. 5, p. 599; am. 2013, ch. 220, sec. 5, p. 518; am. and redesig. 2023, ch. 220, sec. 8, p. 672.]