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The State of Indigent Defense

By Steve Hall

The U.S. Department of Justice hosted a two day symposium on indigent defense on Thursday and Friday in Washington, DC. The BLT reports, "Justice Dept. Pledges Support to Indigent Defense Reform."  It was posted by Mike Scarcella on Friday afternoon.Top leaders at the U.S. Justice Department have rotated in and out of the Mayflower Hotel in Northwest Washington over the past few days, each declaring the department's commitment to indigent defense reform. This afternoon it was Assistant Attorney General Lanny Breuer's turn to deliver remarks in front of several hundred people, many of them public defenders from around the country. ?A strong criminal defense bar is absolutely crucial to the efficacy of any adversarial judicial system,? said Breuer, head of the Criminal Division...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on February 23, 2010 (boomark / email).