Dauphin County Public Defender's Office v. Court of Common Pleas

How courts have described this case

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• holding that public defender has standing to challenge administrative order which affects statutory obligation “to provide legal representation to financially eligible criminal defendants”
• holding that the court lacked authority to dictate to public defender office the income levels above which a defendant would not be considered financially eligible for public defender representation
• holding, in considering a writ of prohibition, that the court of common pleas lacked authority to dictate to the county public defender’s office criteria for representation of applicants seeking its services
• holding, in considering a writ of prohibition, that the court of common pleas lacked authority to dictate to the county public defender's office criteria for representation of applicants seeking its services
• finding Public Defender’s interests to be substantial based on its obligation to provide legal representation to financially eligible criminal defendants

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).