Resources

Public Defense Reform Efforts            

LEGISLATION

• Public Defense Legislative Tracking from NACDL's State Criminal Justice Network

• Gideon's Promise Act

• National Center for the Right to Counsel Act

COURT DECISIONS

• Gideon v. Wainwright

• Hurrell-Harring v. New York

• Joseph Jerome Wilbur, et al., v. City of Mount Vernon, et al.

• State of Iowa v. Archaletta Latrice Young

ADVOCACY

• Letter to Louisiana Governor from ABA President (March 30, 2016)

• Video: Remote Townhall on the Role of Public Defense in Reentry (April 28, 2016)

Department of Justice Resources and Amicus Briefs

• DOJ Indigent Defense Publications

• BJA National Training and Technical Assistance

• 50 Years Later: The Legacy of Gideon v. Wainwright

• Attorney General Eric Holder Addresses the Department of Justice National Symposium on Indigent Defense: Looking Back, Looking Forward, 2000-2010

• DOJ's Access to Justice Initiative

• DOJ Amicus Brief in Tucker v. Idaho

• Remarks by DOJ leaders at Right to Counsel Consortium Second Annual Meeting (October 25, 2016)

• Opening Remarks by Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein and Acting Assistant Attorney General Alan R. Hanson at R2C Third Annual Meeting

• Bureau of Justice Assistance, Office of Justice Programs Sixth Amendment Program

Other Online Resources

R2C DOCUMENTS

• Overview of the Right to Counsel National Campaign

• Right to Counsel National Campaign's Theory of Change

R2C WEBINARS

• Quarterly Webinar #1 (March 10, 2016)

• Quarterly Webinar #2 (June 16, 2016)

• Quarterly Webinar #3 (September 9, 2016)

• Quarterly Webinar #4 (March 14, 2017)

• Quarterly Webinar #5 (June 13, 2017)

• Quarterly Webinar #6 (March 20, 2018)

• Quarterly Webinar #7 (June 19, 2018)

• Quarterly Webinar #8 (September 13, 2018)

R2C VIDEOS

Third Annual Meeting

• Meeting Highlights

• Opening Remarks

• National Consortium Reflection

• State/Local Accomplishments - Part One

• State/Local Accomplishments - Part Two

• Fireside Chat: Law Enforcement

• Fireside Chat: Cross-Discipline System Actions

• Fireside Chat: Prosecutors

• Fireside Chat: Impacted Community Member

Second Annual Meeting

• Highlights

• Rep. Christy Perry

• Judge Bernice Donald

• Michael Barrett

• Former U.S. Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates

First Annual Meeting

• Highlights

R2C REPORTS

• Engaging Key System Actors in Support of the Right to Counsel (March 2019)

• Americans' Views on Public Defenders and The Right to Counsel (November 2017)

  • Messaging guide

• R2C Second Annual Meeting Report

• R2C First Annual Meeting Report

NEWS SOURCES

• The Marshall Project

• Radley Balko’s ‘The Watch’ Blog

• SCOTUSblog

ORGANIZATIONS and STATEMENTS

• Joint Statement in Support of The Use of Pretrial Risk Assessment Instruments

  • Signatories: Gideon's Promise, NLADA, NAPD, NACDL, and NLADA American Council of Chief Defenders

• American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)

  • ACLU – Indigent Defense

  • ACLU – Right to Counsel

• Gideon's Promise

  • Jonathan Rapping delivers the inspirational plenary, The Power of Culture: Working Together to Achieve Justice

  • Genevieve Citrin and Jon Rapping's presentation on the right to counsel at the NACM annual conference.

• Innocence Project

• National Association for Public Defense (NAPD)

  • Foundational principles

• National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL)

  • NACDL – Public Defense

  • NACDL – DOJ Public Defense Statements of Interest

  • Constitutional Violations in South Carolina

  • Gideon at 50 Project: A Three-Part Examination of Public Defense in America

  • State of Crisis: Chronic Neglect and Underfunding for Louisiana's Public Defense System

  • The Rhode Island Project

  • Judicial Responsibility for Justice in Criminal Courts - Conference Report

  • NACDL Video: Introduction to the Right to Counsel

• National Criminal Defense College (NCDC)

• Association of Prosecuting Attorneys and National Legal Aid & Defender Association (NLADA)

  • Safety and Justice Challenge (SJC) Defender Communications Toolkit

  • Beyond The Adversarial System: Achieving the Challenge

• Sixth Amendment Center

  • Early Appointment of Counsel: The Law, Implementation, and Benefits (Collaboration between the Sixth Amendment Center and Pretrial Justice Institute)

  • The Right to Counsel in Indiana: Evaluation of Trial Level Indigent Defense Services

  • Justice Shortchanged: Assigned Counsel Compensation in Wisconsin

  • The Crucible of Adversarial Testing: Access to Counsel in Delaware's Criminal Courts

• The Constitution Project