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ACS Issue Brief on Indigent Defense

By Steve Hall

The American Constitution Society has released an issue brief, "Assessing the Indigent Defense System," written by Erica J. Hashimoto, an associate prof at Georgia Law.  More in this announcement. Professor Hashimoto's Issue Brief is the third in a series that ACS will be publishing focused on ideas for a role that the federal government can play in helping improve the indigent defense system around the country. Attorney General Eric Holder, Congress, and other federal policymakers have taken notice of the crisis in indigent defense that has existed since 1963 when the U.S. Supreme Court held in Gideon v. Wainwright that each state has an obligation under the Sixth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution to provide a criminal defendant with an attorney when he or she cannot afford one, and they have specifically identified reform of the system as a priority...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on September 01, 2010 (boomark / email).