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GARRETT COUNTY, MARYLAND

EXECUTIVE BRANCH

LAW OFFICES

ORIGIN & FUNCTIONS

COUNTY ATTORNEY

The County Attorney serves as legal advisor to the Board of County Commissioners, and other officers and agencies of Garrett County Government, and is responsible for all legal affairs of the County's government.

PUBLIC DEFENDER

For indigent defendants in Garrett County, the District Public Defender provides legal representation, including related necessary services and facilities. The District Public Defender assures effective assistance and continuity of counsel to indigent accused taken into custody and indigent defendants in criminal and juvenile proceedings before Maryland courts (Code Criminal Procedure Article, secs. 16-201 through 16-213).

STATE'S ATTORNEY

The office of State's Attorney was first authorized in 1851 (Constitution of 1851, Art. V, secs. 1-5). The State's Attorney prosecutes and defends, on the part of the State, all cases in Garrett County in which the State may be interested (Code Criminal Procedure Article, secs. 15-101 through 15-109, 15-412).

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