Limitation on use of funds; exceptions
Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case Ake v. Oklahoma (1985)
Most recently applied in 188 W. Va. 633 - Judy v. White (December 1992)
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
(a) Funds made available by the agency to public defender corporations or other entities under this article, either by loan, grant or contract, and funds used for payments to panel attorneys shall be used only to provide legal representation for eligible clients involved in proceedings defined by this article as eligible proceedings.
(b) Funds received from any source other than the agency shall not be used by a public defender corporation for purposes prohibited by this article.
Official source: West Virginia Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain West Virginia statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.