Public Defenders Refusing to Take New Cases
The New York Times reports on a trend of public defenders refusing to take on new cases, on the grounds that their workload is so high that they cannot effectively defend their clients. With budget...
View ArticleAssigned Counsel are Not Government Actors? This is News?
The Supreme Court ruled today that defense attorneys assigned by the state are not government actors, merely because the government assigns and pays them. They are attorneys for the defendant, and...
View ArticleDeath Row: Court OK’s Federal Defenders for State Clemency Hearings
In an unusually mixed decision for the consensus-driven Roberts Court, the Supreme Court today ruled that federal public defenders can represent death-penalty clients at state clemency hearings. The...
View ArticleThe System is Broken: NY Ct. of Appeals Allows Class Action over Indigent...
Gideon v. Wainwright, 372 U.S. 335 (1963) guarantees that criminal defendants who cannot afford a lawyer must be provided one by the state. In a groundbreaking decision today, New York’s highest court...
View ArticleInstead of coming up with an original idea, we prefer to tell you why yours...
Everyone knows that the indigent defense system in this country is broken. The courts have mandated that every jurisdiction has to pay for indigent criminal defendants to get a lawyer. It is...
View ArticleStatistical ranking of defense lawyers? Maybe, but not this way.
It’s an intriguing notion: that one can objectively assess the relative effectiveness of a given lawyer. With hard data, and sound analysis. In the real world, it’s nigh impossible to tell how good a...
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