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The House Judiciary Committee yesterday approved two amendments
that would reallocate the distribution of circuit and associate circuit judges.
The proposed changes include reducing the number of circuit judges in the 22nd
Judicial Circuit by six and removing one circuit judge from the 43rd Judicial
Circuit. The amendments were added to SB 976, an omnibus judicial bill that
exceeds 400 pages and SB 767, which would authorize hiring of contract counsel
by the Public Defender to represent indigent defendants in certain types of
cases.
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