Indigent Defense

Other Resources

American Bar Association, Gideon’s Broken Promise: America’s Continuing Quest for Equal Justice (Dec. 2004)

American Bar Association, Ten Principles of a Public Defense Delivery System (Feb. 2002)

ABA Standing Committee on Legal Aid and Indigent Defendants, Eight Guidelines of Public Defense Related to Excessive Workloads (Aug. 2009)

ABA Standing Committee on Legal Aid and Indigent Defendants, Recommendation for Establishment of a Center for Defense Services (1979)

Committee for Public Counsel Services of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 2009 Report to the Legislature, (2009)

Erica Hashimoto, Assessing the Indigent Defense System (American Constitution Society Sept. 2010)

Lynn Langton and Donald Farole, Jr., State Public Defender Programs, 2007 (U.S. Department of Justice Bureau of Justice Statistics September 2010)

Anthony Lewis, Gideon’s Trumpet (Knopf Doubleday, 1965)

National Legal Aid and Defender Association, Make Our Justice System Fair and Our Communities Safer by Supporting Quality Public Defense Systems (2008)

National Right to Counsel Committee of the Constitution Project. Justice Denied (April 2009)

Eve Brensike Primus, Litigation Strategies for Dealing with the Indigent Defense Crisis (American Constitution Society Sept. 2010)

The Spangenberg Project, State, County, and Local Expenditures for Indigent Defense Services Fiscal Year 2008 (America Bar Association 2008)

Stephen J. Schulhofer & David D. Friedman, Reforming Indigent Defense: How Free Market Principles Can Help to Fix a Broken System (The Cato Institute, Sept. 2010)