Public Defense Reform Efforts            

LEGISLATION

COURT DECISIONS

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

R2C WEBINARS

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

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)

  • National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL)

  • 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

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