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Federal Indigent Defense 2015: The Independence Imperative

In the wake of the severe cuts to the provision of indigent defense services during sequestration in 2013, the National Association of Criminal Defense ...

FEDERAL INDIGENT DEFENSE 2015: THE INDEPENDENCE ...

Executive Director, NACDL. Page 9. Federal Indigent Defense 2015: The Independence Imperative A Report by the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers.

Federal Indigent Defense 2015: The Independence Imperative - Other

This report explores those concerns and offers seven recommendations to assure a robust federal indigent defense system.

Federal Public Defense: The Mysterious Case of a Very ... - NACDL

Federal Indigent Defense 2015: The Independence Imperative documented pervasive problems in the system, many of which arose from undue ...

Counsel Type in Federal Criminal Court Cases, 2015-18

Under the Criminal Justice Act (CJA) of 1964, federal courts adopted different approaches to provide indigent defense, including federal public defenders (e.g., ...

Indigent Defense Grants, Training and Technical Assistance

The Justice Department has been working to develop strategies, tools, and resources to help better understand and address the challenges to the effective ...

Defense Lawyers Find that Defense Lawyers Should Get More Money

... Defense Lawyers (NACDL) today officially releases a major report -- Federal Indigent Defense 2015: The Independence Imperative. The report ...

Defender Services - Annual Report 2015 | United States Courts

The Judiciary is providing assistance in gathering data from approximately 20,000 prisoner cases as part of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers ...

Suggesting unionization as a (partial ... - Sentencing Law and Policy

The National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers has just issued a hard-hitting report [available here], "Federal Indigent Defense 2015: The Independence ...

Indigent defense - Bureau of Justice Assistance

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ABA Ten Principles of a Public Defense Delivery System

Federal Indigent Defense 2015: The Independence Imperative (2015), https://www.nacdl.org/Document/FederalIndigentDefense2015IndependenceImperative. 3 The ...

The Structure of Federal Public Defense: A Call for Independence

. LAWYERS, FEDERAL INDIGENT DEFENSE. 2015: THE INDEPENDENCE IMPERATIVE 22–23 (2015) [hereinafter NACDL REPORT] (cit- ing federal judges' high esteem of ...

Implementation and Impact of Indigent Defense Standards ...

All criminal defendants in the U.S. facing charges which might result in incarceration are ccmstitutionally entitled to legal representation at government ...

Accessing Federal Grants, Foundation Funds and Other ...

public defense initiatives, up from $1.3 million provided to indigent defense in 2012. ... ON RIGHT TO COUNSEL AND INDIGENT DEFENSE (2015), available at https:// ...

Defense Counsel and Public Defense

See NAT'L ASS'N OF CRIMINAL DEF. LAW., FEDERAL INDIGENT DEFENSE 2015: THE INDEPENDENCE. IMPERATIVE 24 (2015). 34. See, e.g., Carol Steiker ...

A Federal Public Defender's Perspective

March 2015 • THE FEDERAL LAWYER • 55 by a great trial lawyer. … [T]rial skills are still a vital part of good fed- eral defense work. But as ...

Federal committee recommends independence of the defense function

The report is finally made public today as the Judicial Conference takes its first actions on the 35 recommendations the committee made for ...

How the Workplace Culture of Public Defender Offices Negatively ...

public defenders.8. See, e.g., Nat'l Ass'n of Criminal Defense Lawyers, Federal Indigent Defense 2015: The Independence. Imperative (2015) [hereinafter The ...

Public Defense Resources | National Legal Aid & Defender ...

Defender Legal Services (DLS) is dedicated to improving public defense systems so they better serve low-income people in contact with the criminal justice ...

Ensuring the Public Defense of Indigent Criminal Defendants in ...

In 2013, the CJAC conducted court watching and interviews with government stakeholders that highlighted a serious problem in the administration of justice in.