Pleading the Sixth: The fear of government unduly taking away one’s liberty led the United States Supreme Court to unanimously declare it an “obvious truth” that no indigent person can be assured a fair trial against the “machinery” of law…
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The State of the Nation on Gideon’s 60th Anniversary
Tagged with: Alabama, California, Colorado, Delaware, funding, Gideon v. Wainwright, Guam, Idaho, Illinois, Iowa, Maine, Michigan, Nevada, New Mexico, New York, Ohio, oversight, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah
Broken Defense, a seven-part series exposes the depths of the indigent defense crisis in western states
Pleading the Sixth: Last week, Lee Enterprises published a seven-part series exposing the indigent defense crisis in the West. With data finally showing what the 6AC has known for years and has found in nearly every study – thousands of…
Tagged with: Actual Denial of COunsel, Arizona, California, caseloads & workloads, Colorado, funding, Idaho, independence, Montana, Nevada, North Dakota, Oregon, oversight, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Wyoming
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
The criminalization of poverty: a spotlight on South Dakota
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 this two-part report, the 6AC looks at South Dakota’s decentralized right…
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