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Office of State Public Defender
610 N Woody
Supervising
Attorney: Edmund Sheehy
Faculty Supervisor:
Professor Jeff Renz
406.243.4823
jeff.renz@umontana.edu
Academic Year – Maximum of 2 students
Summer – Maximum of 1 student
The Montana Office of Public Defender came into existence
on July 1, 2006. Region 2 is one of 11 regions in this sate.
Region 2 encompasses Missoula County, Ravalli County, and
Mineral County. OPD is the court appointed attorney, where
a person cannot afford counsel in all misdemeanor criminal
case, in the municipal courts and justice courts, in this
region; all felony criminal cases; in all juvenile proceedings;
mental commitments; and dependent and neglect proceedings.
A law student selected for this clinic will be handling,
under the Supervising Attorney, entry of pleas, on misdemeanors,
in municipal court and justice court; changes of plea, in
those courts; hearings on motions; jury trials; and bench
trials. A law student will also be able to assist a felony
trial attorney by being in court with them, during a felony
jury trial. The person selected will also be asked to research
and write pre-trial suppression motions; motions to dismiss;
and, any other significant pre-trial motions.
Interns will meet one-on-one with clients and will be primarily
responsible for all cases assigned to them. Interns
will also appear, with any of the full time public defenders,
at jail court, for video appearance in all of the Missoula
courts.
The work will be primarily in Missoula County, but may include
work in Ravalli and Mineral Counties. This is because the
Supervising Attorney supervises all public defenders in each
of those counties and handles cases in all three counties.
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