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Big indigent defense lawsuit about to be heard by New York Court of Appeals

By Douglas A. Berman

Via the New York Civil Liberties Union, I received a press release headed "NY?s Highest Court to Hear Argument in Case that Charges State with Failing its Constitutional Duty on Public Defense."  Here is part of the text: New York?s highest court will tomorrow hear arguments in a New York Civil Liberties Union case that charges New York State with failing its constitutional duty to provide effective counsel to poor New Yorkers accused of crimes. The class action lawsuit, filed in 2007 by the NYCLU and the law firm of Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP, charges that a lack of adequate funding, oversight and statewide standards is denying New Yorkers their right to competent and timely legal representation, a violation of the U.S. Constitution, the state constitution and the laws of New York...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on March 22, 2010 (boomark / email).