Appellate Court Decisions – Defender Research Library

National Juvenile Defense Standards (2012)

P. Purits , L. Thurau
National Juvenile Defender Center (NJDC)
2012 -- NATIONAL LEVEL
Juvenile defense is a specialized practice requiring specialized skills.

Juvenile Defender Resource Guide (2011)

E. Pelletier , C. McGregor , R. Griffin , S. Millier , V. Hernandez , Y. Ford
National Juvenile Defender Center (NJDC)
2011 -- NATIONAL LEVEL
This report covers addresses every issue that could foreseeably arise through the representation of a juvenile defendant.

The People’s Right to a Well-Funded Indigent Defender System

Martin Guggenheim
New York University (NYU)
2012 -- NATIONAL LEVEL
The Sixth Amendment's right to counsel is a collective right of the People.

The People’s Right: Reimagining the Right to Counsel (2011)

Martin Guggenheim
NYU School of Law
2011 -- NATIONAL LEVEL
Challenges to indigent defense systems be brought on separation of powers grounds.

Raise the Proof: A Default Rule for Indigent Defense (2007)

A.M. Gershowitz
Connecticut Law Review
2007 -- NATIONAL LEVEL
This article proposes what the author describes as a “bright-line and classically judicial solution” to chronic underfunding.

Justice Deserts: Spatial Inequality and Local Funding of Indigent Defense (2010)

L.R. Pruitt , B.A. Colgan
Arizona Law Review
2010 -- Arizona
Uses “justice deserts” (a play on “food deserts”) to describe “where justice is inferior or hard to come by.”

Excessive Public Defense Workloads: Are ABA Standards for Criminal Justice Adequate? (2011)

Norman Lefstein
Hasting Constitutional Law Quarterly
2011 -- NATIONAL LEVEL
This article recognizes that excessive caseloads have overburdened public defenders.