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MI: "Michigan is muting Gideon's trumpet"

From the State Bar of Michigan: Evaluation of Trial-Level Indigent Defense Systems in Michigan - A Race to the Bottom - Speed & Savings Over Due Process - A Constitutional Crisis The National Legal Aid & Defender Association (NLADA) finds that the state of Michigan fails to provide competent representation to those who cannot afford counsel in its criminal courts... Though the level of services varies from county to county ? giving credence to the proposition that the level of justice a poor person receives is dependent entirely on which side of a county line one?s crime is alleged to have been committed instead of the factual merits of the case ? NLADA finds that none of the public defender services in the sample counties are constitutionally adequate...continue to full post

Full post as published by Arbitrary and Capricious on June 18, 2008 (boomark / email).