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Ensuring the Ethical Representation of Clients in the Face of Excessive Caseloads. (Broke and Broken: Can We Fix Our State Indigent Defense System?)

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Title: Ensuring the Ethical Representation of Clients in the Face of Excessive Caseloads. (Broke and Broken: Can We Fix Our State Indigent Defense System?)
Author : Missouri Law Review
Release Date : January 22, 2010
Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
Pages : * pages
Size : 326 KB

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I. INTRODUCTION The lack of adequate indigent defense funding at the state and local levels has caused a crisis. In state after state, public defenders face overwhelming caseloads that inevitably make quality legal representation for clients much more of a dream than a reality. (3) Regardless of the promises in the U.S. federal and state constitutions, poor persons charged with crimes are increasingly unequal before the law. As the title of this Symposium simply states, indigent defense systems are "broke and broken." The criminal justice system is not functioning fairly, ethically, and within constitutional mandates.