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Indigent Defense

The landmark 1963 U.S. Supreme Court decision Gideon v. Wainwright, which established the right to counsel in criminal cases, caused the most significant transformation in American criminal justice history: recognition that every defendant, whether wealthy or poor, is guaranteed the right to a lawyer. But more than forty years after the Gideon decision, the American justice system is still failing to protect the rights and liberty of the nation's poorest defendants.
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top stories    8
  • Indigent Defense Advocate: Fundamental Rights in Criminal Cases Not Protected, Despite Gideon Ruling
    Feb 10, 2013
  • 50 Years Later, Right to Counsel Remains a Challenge for Many Americans
    Jan 30, 2013
  • New Report Offers Multifaceted Solution to Indigent Defense Reform
    Jan 8, 2013
  • Grant to ABA Will Support Access to Justice Commissions
    Feb 24, 2012
  • ABA Focus Group Offers Indigent Defense Reforms
    Feb 15, 2012
around the bar    5
  • State Access to Justice Programs Receive ABA Grants
    Dec 13, 2012
  • The Consequence of Pro Se Representation
    Aug 4, 2012
  • Nation’s New Indigent Defense Chief Praises Recent Supreme Court Pick, Proposition 8 Ruling
    Aug 8, 2010
  • Summit Focuses on Improving Indigent Defense
    Feb 10, 2010
  • Budget Crises on the Minds of Public Defenders
    Feb 14, 2009
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releases    16
  • Preserving the Right to a Lawyer for Criminal Defendants
    Mar 18, 2013
  • Report Offers Solutions to U.S. Indigent Defense Crisis in Gideon’s 50th Anniversary Year
    Jan 8, 2013
  • ABA Gives Grants to State Access to Justice Programs
    Dec 13, 2012
  • ABA Offers Conclusions on Public Defender Workloads to Florida Supreme Court
    Jan 4, 2012
  • Indigent Parents Should Have Right to Counsel in Abuse and Neglect Cases, ABA Urges N.H. High Court
    Dec 13, 2011
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multimedia    10

  • 50 Years After Gideon: Stephen Bright Urges Overhaul of Indigent Defense System 
    March 19, 2013

  • ABA Adopts Standards for Language Access in Courts 
    February 6, 2012

  • U.S. Attorney General Applauds ABA Dedication to Indigent Defense 
    February 5, 2012

  • Attorney General Holder: “Commit to be Smart on Crime” 
    August 3, 2009

  • Summit on Indigent Defense Improvement 
    February 9, 2007
resources    4
  • Standing Committee on Legal Aid & Indigent Defendants
    Mar 6, 2010
  • Senate Testimony of Lora Livingston Re:Closing the Justice Gap
    May 22, 2008
  • Indigent Defense State Reports
    Feb 11, 2005
  • Gideon’s Broken Promise: America’s Continuing Quest for Equal Justice
    Dec 11, 2004
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aba in the news    9
  • Op-ed: Something else O’Connor should regret
    Tampa Bay Ties
    May 3, 2013
  • Can a poor American get a fair trial?
    Deseret News
    Mar 29, 2013
  • Letter to the editor: Lawyers for immigrants
    NY Times
    Mar 19, 2013
  • Op-ed: Preserving the right to a lawyer for criminal defendants
    Kansas City Star
    Mar 18, 2013
  • Op-ed: Indigent clients suffer as public defenders struggle to keep up with caseloads
    Washington Post
    Mar 18, 2013
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