The majority of the 4-3 Court of Appeals, in a decision written by Carmen Beauchamp Ciparick, said the plan introduced by Mayor Michael Bloomberg in 2008 and modified in 2010 satisfies the requirements of County Law §722 for a so-called "combination plan" in which the city assigns to institutional providers the cases of poor defendants where primary legal services providers have a conflict of interest.
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Bloomberg Plan for Indigent Defense Conflict Counsel Upheld
New York Law Journal
October 31, 2012
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