Federal Court Decisions – Defender Research Library

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.

Effective Trial Counsel After Martinez v. Ryan: Focusing on the Adequacy of State Procedures (2013)

Eve Brensike Primus
Yale Law Journal
2013 -- NATIONAL LEVEL
Contemplates defendants' right to effective trial counsel and states' post-conviction procedures.

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: 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.

The National Right to Counsel Act: A Congressional Solution to the Nation’s Indigent Defense Crisis (2010)

C.H. Drinan
Harvard Journal on Legislation
2010 -- NATIONAL LEVEL
This article proposes a federal legislative remedy to the national crisis in indigent defense.

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.