In August 2000, the North Carolina General Assembly enacted the Indigent Defense Services Act, which created the Office of Indigent Defense Services and charged it with overseeing and enhancing the provision of legal representation to indigent defendants and others entitled to counsel under North Carolina law. The School of Government collaborates with the Office of Indigent Defense Services to create quality, cost-effective indigent defense education, including innovative training programs, manuals, and online resources, to ensure that indigent defenders have the qualifications, training, and support they need to be effective.
UPCOMING TRAININGS
- Misdemeanor Defender Training: November 2-5, 2021
RECENT DEVELOPMENTS
New On-Demand Content: Click here to view our most recent on-demand content, including Autopsy of a Crime Lab: Exposing the Flaws in Forensics and The First Seven Days: Parent Defender.
- New Blog Post: Case Summaries-Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals (July 2021) by Phil Dixon
New Publication: The First Seven Days as a Guardian ad Litem in an Incompetency Proceeding by Timothy Heinle
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