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Lawyer develops expertise in mental illness

April 27th, 2009 · No Comments · Mental Health, Public defender, Virginia Beach

Virginia Beach public defender Annette Miller helps those with mental health issues.
Miller has worked in the public defender’s office since 1995. In the past five years, she tells The Virginian-Pilot, she has likely handled more than 200 criminal cases involving seriously mentally ill defendants.
The city of Virginia Beach recognized her in 2000 with a Human [...]

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Baugh to become capital defender

February 6th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Indigent Defense Commission, Public defender

David P. Baugh, the prominent Richmond criminal defense attorney, will become the capital defender for the central Virginia office of the Indigent Defense Commission on March 1.
Baugh will succeed John B. Boatwright III, who has been seriously ill for much of the last two years and transferred recently to commission’s central office as special capital [...]

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