Season’s Greetings from the 6AC! We at 6AC are privileged to travel all across the country to meet with criminal justice stakeholders and policymakers as we aim to help them ensure an effective right to counsel. This year brought us…
Tag: Indiana
2019 Year in Review
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Indiana Task Force on Public Defense urges comprehensive reform
Pleading the Sixth: In October 2016, the 6AC released its evaluation of trial level right to counsel services in Indiana, detailing how and why the Indiana public defense system results in the actual and constructive denial of counsel to the indigent…
Indiana stands as a cautionary tale for other states with similar indigent defense system models
Pleading the Sixth: On October 24, 2016, the Sixth Amendment Center released its report detailing how the “Indiana Model” for defender services leads to the actual denial of counsel and/or the provision of a lawyer in name only throughout the state.…
The “Indiana Model” for providing right to counsel services does not work
Pleading the Sixth: On October 24, 2016, the Sixth Amendment Center released its report on trial level indigent defense services in Indiana. Beginning in the 1990s, the “Indiana Model” was widely promoted as potentially the best way to improve the provision…
Tagged with: county systems, evaluations of systems, Indiana, Sixth Amendment Center, standards - system
Putting the spotlight on small-town America: Putnam County, Indiana
Pleading the Sixth: In holding that the right to the assistance of counsel is a guarantee of our federal Constitution, the U.S. Supreme Court in Gideon v. Wainwright made that right obligatory on state governments by virtue of the Fourteenth…
Tagged with: caseloads & workloads, county systems, Indiana, Putnam County IN, rural areas, Ten Principles
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