Mich. Admin. Ord. Administrative Order No. 2014-18
1978 PA 620 authorized the Appellate Defender Commission to develop a system of indigent appellate defense services to include services provided by the State Appellate Defender Office and locally appointed private counsel. In Administrative Order No. 1981-7, the Court authorized the Appellate Defender Commission to establish an Appellate Assigned Counsel Administrator's Office to operate the roster of private attorneys providing appellate defense services. SADO and the Michigan Assigned Appellate Counsel System have operated separately until now. On order of the Court, at the request of the Appellate Defender Commission, effective immediately, to promote efficiency and improve the administration of assigned appellate counsel for indigent defendants, the Court orders that operations of the two offices be merged. The State Appellate Defender shall serve as administrator of the Michigan Assigned Appellate Counsel System. Further, the Court directs the Appellate Defender Commission to review operations of the MAACS and submit a proposed administrative order that reflects the consolidation of the two offices and incorporates proposed updates or revisions that the commission recommends. The commission shall submit the proposed administrative order to the Court no later than March 31, 2015.
Mich. Admin. Ord. Administrative Order No. 2014-18