Pleading the Sixth: A coalition of legal experts petitions the Wisconsin Supreme Court to end financial conflicts of interest between private attorneys and the indigent clients they are appointed to represent. They ask the state’s high court to ban flat…
Tag: compensation & expenses
Tennessee Supreme Court Task Force recommends complete overhaul of right to counsel services
Pleading the Sixth: Recognizing that the State of Tennessee needs a better way of providing right to counsel services, in September 2015 former Chief Justice Sharon Lee created an Indigent Representation Task Force and challenged them to “build a better mousetrap.”…
Wisconsin’s low attorney compensation rates create conflicts for the indigent accused
Pleading the Sixth: Imagine holding the same job for 30 years without ever once receiving a raise. If that job required you to pay for many of the associated costs of doing business, inflation alone would have significantly decreased your…
Tagged with: assigned counsel, compensation & expenses, conflicts, contracts - flat fee, Ten Principles, Wisconsin
How an otherwise model assigned counsel compensation plan contributes to South Dakota’s indigent defense problems
Pleading the Sixth: When states make counties wholly responsible for the delivery of trial-level indigent defense services without state oversight of those services, bad things can and do happen. In Part I of this two-part report, the 6AC looks at South…
Tagged with: assigned counsel, compensation & expenses, county systems, funding, South Dakota, Ten Principles
Maine Commission on Indigent Legal Services to run out of money in April 2013
Pleading the Sixth: The Maine Commission on Indigent Legal Services (MCILS) is predicting that it will run out of money to pay assigned counsel attorneys shortly after the 50th Anniversary of Gideon v. Wainwright (March 2013). The unavailability of funds,…
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