Except as provided in section
46b-136, reasonable expenses of, or incurred by, the commission, the Chief Public Defender, or those serving pursuant to the provisions of this chapter, including rental of facilities, witnesses summoned, costs of transcripts ordered from the official court reporters or court recording monitors, costs of service of process, and costs of equipment, and other necessary disbursements or costs of defense shall be paid from the budget of the commission upon approval of the commission.
(P.A. 74-317, S. 11, 14; P.A. 19-64, S. 11.)
History: P.A. 19-64 added “Except as provided in section 46b-136,” and replaced “court reporters” with “the official court reporters or court recording monitors” and made a technical change, effective July 1, 2019.
The qualification of “those serving pursuant to the provisions of this chapter” includes a public defender or special public defender who has been appointed as standby counsel for an indigent self-represented defendant; Public Defender Services Commission is statutorily authorized to fund the reasonably necessary ancillary defense costs of indigent, self-represented criminal defendants for whom standby counsel has been appointed; commission must make threshold determination as to whether costs are reasonably necessary for expert or investigative services before authorizing payment from commission's budget. 312 C. 222.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in
3
cases, 2014–2020 · leading case:
State v. Wang, 92 A.3d 220 (Conn. 2014).
State v. Wang, 92 A.3d 220 (Conn. 2014).
· cites it 23× “Contrary to the commission’s position, the chief court administrator maintains that nothing in the statu- tory provision governing the expenditures paid by the commission, General Statutes § 51-292, limits such expenditures to ancillary defense costs of indigent defendants who…”
State v. White, 224 A.3d 855 (Conn. 2020).
· cites it 3× “37; and that § 51-292 authorized the commission ‘‘to fund reasonably necessary ancillary defense costs incurred by standby counsel who, thusly appointed, is serving pursuant to the provisions of the chapter of the General Statutes governing public defender services,’’ meaning…”
State v. White, 224 A.3d 855 (Conn. 2020).
· cites it 3× “37; and that § 51-292 authorized the commission ‘‘to fund reasonably necessary ancillary defense costs incurred by standby counsel who, thusly appointed, is serving pursuant to the provisions of the chapter of the General Statutes governing public defender services,’’ meaning…”
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