The Legislature should take steps to create a new, independent public defense system that's financed by social impact bonds.

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To take one example, the majority opinion in the landmark 1963 decision in Gideon v. Wainwright, which established the right to a court-appointed lawyer for indigent criminal defendants ...

On March 25, the Travis County Commissioners Court was packed, seats filled with public defenders, paralegals, social workers ...

SPRINGFIELD — In 1963, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Gideon v. Wainwright that every person has a constitutional right to free legal representation in criminal cases, including poor people who ...

and the realities of “effective assistance of counsel” fifty years after Gideon v. Wainwright. Mr Porter is an Assistant Federal Defender at the Office of the Federal Defender for the Eastern District ...

March 18 marked the 63rd anniversary of one of the Supreme Court’s most famous and impactful decisions, Gideon v. Wainwright. This landmark decision asserted that criminal defendants who cannot ...