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	<description>Welcome to the PDI Network, a collection of (hopefully) useful links for criminal defense investigators, especially those who work for indigent defendants.</description>
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		<title>Los Angeles bankruptcy facts at hand, but fears fade</title>
		<description><![CDATA[While much of the talk about the city declaring bankruptcy has faded, at least one downtown law firm continues to look at it as a potential source of business.
Latham and Watkins, one of the premier firms in the region, has prepared a 46-page Power Point presentation outlining the possibilities and limits of a city going [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pdinvestigator.net/los-angeles-bankruptcy-facts-at-hand-but-fears-fade.html</link>
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		<title>2010 pas deux</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The year is half over, so I thought I&#8217;d check in and see where I&#8217;m at with the goals I set just over six months ago.  On the running front, I&#8217;m pretty sure I haven&#8217;t run 950 miles, thanks to the issues I had during February and March. But, I&#8217;m pleased with the results [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Quick justice for boozy drivers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thousands of boozy Ontario drivers will be able to avoid trials and help clear court backlogs by admitting guilt starting in 10 days.
The new system, including installation of a monitoring devices that can disable a auto if alcohol is detected, was welcomed Saturday by the CEO of Mother’s Against Drunk Driving (MADD) and a Toronto [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pdinvestigator.net/quick-justice-for-boozy-drivers.html</link>
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		<title>Four in Swiss train accident &#8216;critical&#8217;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Swiss authorities confirmed Saturday that a 64-year-old Japanese woman was killed when a popular tourist train derailed in the Alps, and said four other Japanese citizens were in a critical condition.
Some 42 people were injured when three first-class wagons of the Glacier Express travelling between the ski resorts of Zermatt and St Moritz derailed Friday.
Nicole [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pdinvestigator.net/four-in-swiss-train-accident-critical.html</link>
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		<title>No charges, but no vindication, either, in U.S. attorneys scandal</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Justice Department has announced that no criminal charges will be filed  in the Bush administration&#8217;s dismissal of nine U.S. attorneys in late 2006. The decision, however, is not an exoneration of the Bush officials, including former attorney general Alberto R. Gonzales.
The Justice Department&#8217;s Office of Inspector General and Office of Professional Responsibility concluded [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pdinvestigator.net/no-charges-but-no-vindication-either-in-u-s-attorneys-scandal.html</link>
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		<title>Duval public defender’s hire of Death Row inmate&#8217;s wife short-lived</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just a few weeks after Duval County Public Defender Matt Shirk hired Rosalie Bolin — a death penalty mitigation specialist who is married to a Florida Death Row inmate — Shirk canceled her contract Tuesday.
Shirk said while her experience, prior successes and unique perspective on capital punishment would normally enhance his office’s capital crimes unit, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pdinvestigator.net/duval-public-defender%e2%80%99s-hire-of-death-row-inmates-wife-short-lived.html</link>
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		<title>National Defender Investigator 2010 Regional Conference</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The 2010 Regional Conference will take place in beautiful Savannah, GA. Click here to get the registration form.
The 2010 Regional Conference will be from September 9 through September 10, 2010. The Hyatt Regency Savannah is located across the river from Hutchison Island in lovely Savannah, GA, only a short distance from the Georgia-South Carolina border.
The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pdinvestigator.net/national-defender-investigator-2010-regional-conference.html</link>
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		<title>What Is A Criminal Defense Lawyer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What is a criminal defense lawyer? He or she is a legal professional who organizes a case in order to represent a client who is accused of a crime.
These crimes include sex, drug and violent offenses which are things that are not approved by society as seen in this country’s laws.
The job now of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pdinvestigator.net/what-is-a-criminal-defense-lawyer.html</link>
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		<title>Does Your Criminal Defense Lawyer Make You Think He Is Going To Incarcerate You?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[              One way or another, sometimes we have our day in court. This means that whether or not the client is culpable of the crime he committed, his criminal defense lawyer should do his best to defend his client from the crime [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pdinvestigator.net/does-your-criminal-defense-lawyer-make-you-think-he-is-going-to-incarcerate-you.html</link>
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		<title>The Differences Between State and Federal Court for Criminal Defendents</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When a potential client calls our firm and tells us that they are charged with a criminal offense, one the first things we generally ask them is whether they are charged in state or federal court. There have been several instances where we have represented two individuals at the same time who are charged with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pdinvestigator.net/the-differences-between-state-and-federal-court-for-criminal-defendents.html</link>
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