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• Title: State V. Hon. William J. Schnedar
• Author : New Mexico Supreme Court
• Release Date : January 23, 1993
• Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 61 KB

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The Department contends that district and magistrate Judges do not have authority to appoint the Department to represent defendants, primarily because it has exclusive statutory power to determine the indigence of defendants. It argues that the Public Defender Act ("PDA"), NMSA 1978, §§ 31-15-1 to -12 (Repl.Pamp.1984 & Cum.Supp.1992), specifically Section 31-15-7 (Cum.Supp.1992), supersedes conflicting provisions of the Indigent Defense Act ("IDA"), NMSA §§ 31-16-1 to -10 (Repl.Pamp.1984), and gives it this authority. For further support, the Department cites NMSA 1978, Section 34-6-46 (Repl.Pamp.1990), which states that "[t]he district court shall use a standard adopted by the public defender department to determine indigency of persons accused of crimes carrying a possible jail sentence," and identical provisions relating to other courts. See NMSA 1978, § 34-8A-11 (Repl.Pamp.1990) (metropolitan court); NMSA 1978, § 35-5-8 (Repl.Supp.1988) (magistrate court); NMSA 1978, § 32-1-56 (Repl.Pamp.1989) (children's or family court division of the district court).

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