This is in response to your request f or an advisory opinion from the Judicial Inquiry
Commission concerning the following matter.
A local attorney has informed you that he wishes to represent indigent
defendants who are charged with speeding in district court. That attorney
wants you, as district judge, to communicate his offer to those defendants
by either 1) permitting that attorney to make an announcement before the
call of the docket, 2) making a general announcement of the attorney’s
offer yourself, or 3) advising each individual defendant who is indigent and
charged with speeding of counsel’s offer.