Pleading the Sixth: Mississippi regularly denies felony defendants the right to counsel during the critical stage between arrest or preliminary hearing and arraignment following grand jury indictment. This practice is pervasive, resulting from systemic neglect of indigent defense at the…
By Michael Tartaglia and Kourtney Kinchen 6AC presents this year in review to acknowledge the most significant reforms to how the right to counsel is funded and delivered across the United States. We wish all our readers a happy and…
Pleading the Sixth: On December 11, 2012, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder reaffirmed our country’s Sixth Amendment “crisis” and called for a bi-partisan reevaluation “about how we do criminal justice in the United States.”
