NCJ Number
91760
Date Published
1982
Length
60 pages
Annotation
Montana's Joint Subcommittee on Judiciary recommends that the 1983 Montana Legislature consider enacting a bill changing certain judicial district boundaries and changing the number of judges in certain districts and a bill creating a public defense coordinator to provide assistance to the counties for indigent defense services.
Abstract
It also recommends passage of bills requiring random assignment of judges in civil and criminal cases, revising the provisions for State grants to counties for district court assistance, allowing only one substitution of a judge for each adverse party in a civil case, and providing State funding to help pay for the salaries of deputy county attorneys. Other recommended bills would provide longevity pay for county attorneys and their deputies, provide for nonpartisan elections of county attorneys and sheriffs, permit the training coordinators for county attorneys to act as special counsel to a county, and permit a defendant sentenced to death to be confined at the State prison at State expense pending execution. Notes and appendixes presenting maps showing current and proposed judicial districts and the texts of proposed legislation are included.