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In Their Own Defense

By Steve Hall

That's the title of an editorial in today's Washington Post on the state of indigent defense. LAURENCE H. TRIBE has left the Justice Department, last weekbut the mission he was tapped to lead - broadening and strengthening legal services for the poor - should carry on. The Harvard law professor spent nine months as the senior counselor for access to justice. He says he is returning to Massachusetts to be near medical professionals who have been treating him for a benign brain tumor; he plans to resume teaching at Harvard next fall. Mr. Tribe and Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. deserve credit for bringing increased attention to the sorry state of defense for indigent people some four decades after the Supreme Court articulated a constitutional right to counsel...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on December 10, 2010 (boomark / email).