The 6AC was proud to help the folks at Last Week Tonight with John Oliver over the past couple of weeks as they developed an in-depth segment on the nationwide indigent defense crisis. Watch it here.
Tag: Florida
Florida Supreme Court grants public defenders the right to declare case overload
Pleading the Sixth: On May 23, 2013, the Florida Supreme Court granted the 11th Circuit Public Defender (Miami-Dade County) the right to refuse new cases due to case overload. Importantly, the Court makes the case that Strickland is an inadequate…
Tagged with: case law - state courts, caseloads & workloads, Florida, litigation, Miami-Dade County FL
Florida institutes a “dangerous game of chance” in conflict representation
Pleading the Sixth: A new Florida statute allows judges to limit compensation for private attorneys handling conflict indigent defense cases. A June 2012 Florida Innocence Commission report says the law “invites ineffective assistance of counsel and wrongful convictions.” As some…
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