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House Judiciary Committee could undo counsel at bail review ruling (access required)

Posted: 7:36 pm Tue, January 31, 2012
By Steve Lash
Daily Record Legal Affairs Writer

ANNAPOLIS — The House Judiciary Committee appears poised to undo a court ruling that indigent defendants have a statutory right to counsel when their bail is set — a right the public defender estimates would cost the state $28 million annually. Each measure would soften the blow to criminal defendants by expressly giving them the right ...

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