2019 Connecticut General Statutes
Title 51 - Courts
Chapter 887 - Public Defender Services
Section 51-292 - Expenses included in commission's budget.
Reasonable expenses of, or incurred by, the commission, the Chief Public Defender, or those serving pursuant to the provisions of this chapter, including rental of facilities, witnesses summoned, costs of transcripts ordered from court reporters, costs of service of process, and costs of equipment, and other necessary disbursements or costs of defense shall be paid from the budget of the commission upon approval of the commission.
(P.A. 74-317, S. 11, 14.)
The qualification of “those serving pursuant to the provisions of this chapter” includes a public defender or special public defender who has been appointed as standby counsel for an indigent self-represented defendant; Public Defender Services Commission is statutorily authorized to fund the reasonably necessary ancillary defense costs of indigent, self-represented criminal defendants for whom standby counsel has been appointed; commission must make threshold determination as to whether costs are reasonably necessary for expert or investigative services before authorizing payment from commission's budget. 312 C. 222.
