Public Defense Reform Since Gideon: Improving the Administration of Justice by Building on Our Successes and Learning from Our Failures: A Public Defense Leadership Focus Group

摘要

;Contents: Executive Summary; Overview; The Constitutional Right to Counsel; A Day to Take Stock; Agenda for the Future; Proceedings of the September 16, 2008 NLADA-BJA Public Defense; Leadership Focus Group; Opening Remarks; Structure and Culture in Indigent Defense Reform; How We Got from Gideon to the Present; Part I: What are the Challenges to Quality Public Defense That Have Not Been Met; Part II: What Roadblocks Have Prevented the Promise of Gideon From Being Fully Realized; Part III: What Lessons Have We Learned From the Failure to Fully Implement Gideon; Changing Public Defense Culture- A Model Program: The Southern Public Defender Training Center; Part IV: Looking Toward the Future Priorities and Promising Strategies and Trends; Part V: Recommended Action Steps for Change; Conclusion; Appendix.