Bar Groups, Law Centers and Faculty Support Right of Poor Persons Accused of Crime to Challenge New York State’s Broken Indigent Defense SystemNACDL Press Release
February 4, 2010
A diverse group of bar associations representing 100,000 lawyers, and law centers and dozens of law professors from all of New York State’s 15 law schools is urging courts to address New York’s broken system for providing legal representation to poor defendants in criminal cases. The group filed a joint amicus curiae, or “friend of the court,” brief in support of plaintiffs in a case who claim that legal services for the poor are constitutionally inadequate to ensure equal justice under law.
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