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New ACS piece on the right to counsel and public defender workloads

By Douglas A. Berman

Continuing its strong coverage of indigent defense issues, the American Constitution Society has released another issue brief on this critcal topic. The document is avaiable via this ACS page, and here is a description: ACS is pleased to distribute ?When Excessive Public Defender Workloads Violate the Sixth Amendment Right to Counsel Without a Showing of Prejudice,? an Issue Brief by Laurence A. Benner, Professor of Law and Managing Director of Criminal Justice Programs at California Western School of Law.  This paper is part of a series of Issue Briefs that ACS is publishing focused on ideas for a role that the federal government can play in helping improve indigent defense systems around the country . This series builds on the interest in pursuing reform expressed by Attorney General Eric Holder, Congress, and other federal policymakers to address the crisis in indigent defense that has existed since the Supreme Court?s 1963 decision in Gideon v...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on March 01, 2011 (boomark / email).