Assigned Counsel – Defender Research Library

Determining Eligibility for Assignment of Counsel in New York: A Study of Current Criteria and Procedures and Recommendations for Improvement

New York State Office of Indigent Legal Services

2016 -- New York
Outline of the results of the Office of Indigent Legal Services’ research on the current assigned counsel eligibility processes in New York State criminal courts outside of New York City.

Criteria and Procedures for Determining Assigned Counsel Eligibility

New York State Office of Indigent Legal Services

2016 -- New York
Criteria and procedures for determining eligibility for assigned counsel developed by the New York State Office of Indigent Legal Services.

High-Powered Attorney Incentives: A Look at the New Indigent Defense System in South Carolina

Benjamin Schwall
Clemson University, College of Business and Behavioral Science, John E. Walker Department of Economics
2015 -- South Carolina
An analysis of how indigent defense attorneys respond to a change in payment structures.

Justice Shortchanged: Assigned Counsel Compensation in Wisconsin

Sixth Amendment Center
Sixth Amendment Center
2015 -- Wisconsin
Report describes the financial constraints imposed on Wisconsin lawyers who represent poor people and identifies significant flaws in how the state attempts to uphold its obligations under the Sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution.

Improving Data Collection and Analytic Capacity in Indigent Defense

Alyssa Clark , Janet Moore , Andrew Davies
Indigent Defense Research Association
2016 -- NATIONAL LEVEL
A discussion of why data collection and analytic capacity in indigent defense needs to be improved.

Public Defenders (2008)

B. Mantel
CQ Press
2008 -- NATIONAL LEVEL
This is the “Public Defenders” edition of CQ Researcher, a newsletter that investigates a new topic each week.

Indigent Defense: DOJ Could Increase Awareness of Eligible Funding and Better Determine the Extent to Which Funds Help Support This Purpose (2012)

US Government Accountability Office (GAO)
2012 -- NATIONAL LEVEL
GAO used web based surveys to determine the extent to which state, local, and tribal government allocated federal funding for indigent defense.