RULES GOVERNING THE APPOINTMENT OF COUNSEL TO REPRESENT INDIGENT PARTIES Rule 210.2. Manner of Appointment

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Rule 210.2. Manner of Appointment

(a) The Chief Justice of the Virgin Islands or the most senior Justice serving on a panel of the Supreme Court, as well as each Judge and Magistrate Judge of the Superior Court (hereafter the "presiding judicial officer") shall appoint counsel in the order set forth below:

1. The Office of the Territorial Public Defender
2. The appropriate Private Attorney Panel
3. Regularly-admitted members of the Virgin Islands Bar Association eligible to practice law in the Virgin Islands, subject to the following provisions:

i. A regularly-admitted member may only be appointed as a upon a finding of the presiding judicial officer that the Office of the Territorial Public Defender cannot ethically undertake the representation, and that the appropriate Private Attorney Panel is also insufficient to provide adequate representation.
ii. The Judicial Branch Administrative Office, with the collaboration of the Clerks of the Supreme and Superior Courts and the Standing Committee on Indigent Appointments, shall maintain, and update no less than quarterly, an alphabetical roster of regularly-admitted members of the Virgin Islands Bar Association, which shall exclude attorneys who have joined a Private Attorney Panel as well as those attorneys entitled to an exemption under Rule 210.2(a)(3)(iv). The roster shall

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