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Funding MI PDs and the Constitution

By John Wesley Hall, Jr.

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Law.com: Michigan Faces Constitutional Case Over Cash-Strapped Public Defenders by Tresa Baldas: Are Michigan's public defenders improperly pushing the poor into copping pleas? The Michigan Supreme Court will consider that question this spring when it hears a case challenging how publicly appointed lawyers represent poor criminal defendants. At issue is whether cash-strapped public defenders are violating the constitutional rights of defendants by allegedly too eagerly encouraging plea bargains, as opposed to vigorously fighting the charges. Indigent defendants in three Michigan counties -- Muskegon, Berrien and Genesee -- are suing the state over what they claim is an underfunded and inadequate public defender system. The lawsuit, filed in 2007, got a boost in June when a Michigan appeals court ordered the case to proceed to trial...continue to full post

Full post as published by Law Of Criminal Defense on December 24, 2009 (boomark / email).

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