Kansas Statutes Annotated

K.S.A. § 22-4520 (2026)

Prohibition on interfering with professional duties of counsel

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22-4520. Prohibition on interfering with professional duties of counsel. The state board of indigents' defense services shall not make any decision regarding the handling of any case nor interfere with the appointed counsel, contract counsel or public defender, or any member of the staff thereof, in carrying out their professional duties.

History: L. 1982, ch. 142, § 2; July 1.

Notes of Decisions

Cited in 3 cases, 1986–2015 · leading case: Mashaney v. Bd. of Indigents' Def. Servs., 355 P.3d 667 (Kan. 2015).

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Mashaney v. Bd. of Indigents' Def. Servs., 355 P.3d 667 (Kan. 2015). “But, as the Court of Appeals noted, K.S.A. 22-4520 expressly forbids BIDS from making any decision regarding the handling of any case and from interfering with counsel in carrying out his or her professional duties.”

Mashaney v. Bd. of Indigents' Def. Servs., 313 P.3d 64 (Kan. Ct. App. 2013). “While lawyers engaged by BIDS to provide legal services to indigent criminal defendants may be subject to civil liability for professional negligence under some circumstances, we find no statute or other authority that grants to BIDS as a separate entity the capacity to sue or…”

Clark v. Ivy, 727 P.2d 493 (Kan. 1986). “K.S.A. 22-4520; or “2. Be and appear personally in Wichita, Kansas, Courtroom 6-2, Sedgwick County Courthouse, Division Nine, District Court, at 10:30 o’clock a.”

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