Upgrading 31st Street Near Lawrence Studied
Officials propose traffic signals at 31st Street and Louisiana Street and Haskell Avenue with a $50,000 each cost, possible turn lanes later totaling $375,000. Extending 31st Street from Iowa Street to Douglas County 1057 could run $29.4 million, while the South Lawrence Trafficway looms as a $110.2 million link. The study projects 31st Street traffic doubling by 2025, with about 14,000 vehicles daily now and up to 42,000 without the trafficway, depending on permits and environmental hurdles.
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Louisiana Street
Haskell ‘Avenue
Iowa Street
Douglas County
Lawrence
Eudora
South Lawrence
Noria Road
Iowa
Haskell
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Johnson
Houghton
Olathe
DeSoto
Budget cuts threaten indigent defense
Douglas County prosecutors and defense attorneys warn that state funding shortfalls for indigent defense could delay trials, hinder witness availability, and lower pay for private investigators and lawyers. Cecilia Wood plans to take fewer indigent cases as she earns far less from state pay, while attorneys receive only half hour rates for some court tasks. The 1988 pay scale for indigent defense has not kept pace with rising costs.
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Douglas County
Christine Kenney
Cecilia Wood
Lawrence
Wood
Johnson County
John Robinson
Former Defender Sues Kansas Indigent Defense Office
Lawrence attorney Jessica Kunen files a Shawnee County lawsuit alleging understaffing and excessive caseloads in the Kansas Board of Indigent Defense Services Appellate Defender Office. She seeks reinstatement and compensatory damages after being fired July 2001 by Patricia Scalia, who allegedly pressured quality cutbacks.
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Kansas Board of Indigent Defense Services
Lawrence
Shawnee County
Jessica Kunen
Kunen
Patricia Scalia
Indigents Defense Services
Scalia
Kansas Court of Appeals
ABA eyes tougher standards for capital defense teams
The American Bar Association aims to overhaul 14 year old capital defense standards, urging states and counties to fund stronger defense teams for poor defendants. Proposals include two lawyers, an investigator, and a jury expert, as costs worry critics that cash strapped states cannot pay. The move follows heightened scrutiny from Supreme Court justices about death penalty representation and recent debates on capital case fairness.
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Seattle
American Bar Assn
Supreme Court
ABA
Lawrence Marshall
Northwestern University
Kent Scheidegger
Predeath Penalty Criminal Justice Legal Foundation
Sandra Day O’connor
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Maryland
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