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Juvenile Court judges will now track qualifications, but insist the state system creates barriers keeping experienced attorneys from defending kidsPhoto illustration by Jovelle Tamayo/ The Marshall Project ; Photos by Daniel Lozada and Gus Chan for The Marshall Project , Documents: Cuyahoga County Court of Common PleasMore than 1,200 children accused of serious crimes in Cuyahoga County since 2020 were defended by court-appointed lawyers who lacked state-mandated qualifications, The Marshall...
In the past two years, community groups and advocates have questioned the juvenile court’s practice of hand-picking attorneys for kids. That’s because more children from Cuyahoga County have their cases transferred to adult court through a legal process called a bindover. Demarion Harris had no idea how the court picked attorneys or that the attorneys sometimes lacked the required training. Harris will be 26 when he’s up for parole in 2030. The court assigned him one of the juvenile court’s busiest attorneys. Harris said the attorney told him to forgo key hearings in his felonious assault case. He later pleaded guilty in adult court.
The Marshall Project - Cleveland reviewed Ohio Supreme Court records that track those education hours for 46 local attorneys who took the most felony-level cases.- The state reimbursed Cuyahoga County hundreds of thousands of dollars for assignments to attorneys who lacked qualifications. Some of the reimbursement covered work on other cases for the same clients.
Attorneys can contact the state for advice on counting courses or ask for exemptions from the training and trial experience requirements. No attorney reviewed by The Marshall Project – Cleveland made either request in recent years, the state said.
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