Representation for Indigent Defendants in Federal Criminal Cases
Title | Representation for Indigent Defendants in Federal Criminal Cases PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary |
Publisher | |
Pages | 176 |
Release | 1960 |
Genre | Legal aid |
ISBN |
Counsel for Indigent Criminal Defendants
Title | Counsel for Indigent Criminal Defendants PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Congress. House. Committee on the District of Columbia. Judiciary Subcommittee |
Publisher | |
Pages | 216 |
Release | 1974 |
Genre | Public defenders |
ISBN |
Securing Reasonable Caseloads
Title | Securing Reasonable Caseloads PDF eBook |
Author | Norman Lefstein |
Publisher | |
Pages | 292 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | Legal assistance to the poor |
ISBN | 9780615543765 |
For the criminal justice system to work, adequate resources must be available for police, prosecutors and public defense. This timely, incisive and important book by Professor Norman Lefstein looks carefully at one leg of the justice system's "three-legged stool"public defenseand the chronic overload of cases faced by public defenders and other lawyers who represent the indigent. Fortunately, the publication does far more than bemoan the current lack of adequate funding, staffing and other difficulties faced by public defense systems in the U.S. and offers concrete suggestions for dealing with these serious issues.
Assigned Counsel for Indigent Criminal Defendants in Michigan
Title | Assigned Counsel for Indigent Criminal Defendants in Michigan PDF eBook |
Author | Michigan Commission on Crime, Delinquency, and Criminal Administration |
Publisher | |
Pages | 56 |
Release | 1968 |
Genre | Criminal justice, Administration of |
ISBN |
Post-conviction Constitutional Rights of Indigent Criminal Defendants
Title | Post-conviction Constitutional Rights of Indigent Criminal Defendants PDF eBook |
Author | Institute of Judicial Administration |
Publisher | |
Pages | 138 |
Release | 1959 |
Genre | Alternative convictions |
ISBN |
Providing Legal Counsel for Indigent Criminal Defendants in Arkansas
Title | Providing Legal Counsel for Indigent Criminal Defendants in Arkansas PDF eBook |
Author | Arkansas. Administrative Office of the Courts |
Publisher | |
Pages | 228 |
Release | 1991 |
Genre | Legal aid |
ISBN |
Free Justice
Title | Free Justice PDF eBook |
Author | Sara Mayeux |
Publisher | UNC Press Books |
Pages | 287 |
Release | 2020-04-28 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 1469656035 |
Every day, in courtrooms around the United States, thousands of criminal defendants are represented by public defenders--lawyers provided by the government for those who cannot afford private counsel. Though often taken for granted, the modern American public defender has a surprisingly contentious history--one that offers insights not only about the "carceral state," but also about the contours and compromises of twentieth-century liberalism. First gaining appeal amidst the Progressive Era fervor for court reform, the public defender idea was swiftly quashed by elite corporate lawyers who believed the legal profession should remain independent from the state. Public defenders took hold in some localities but not yet as a nationwide standard. By the 1960s, views had shifted. Gideon v. Wainwright enshrined the right to counsel into law and the legal profession mobilized to expand the ranks of public defenders nationwide. Yet within a few years, lawyers had already diagnosed a "crisis" of underfunded, overworked defenders providing inadequate representation--a crisis that persists today. This book shows how these conditions, often attributed to recent fiscal emergencies, have deep roots, and it chronicles the intertwined histories of constitutional doctrine, big philanthropy, professional in-fighting, and Cold War culture that made public defenders ubiquitous but embattled figures in American courtrooms.