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NYT: The right to counsel and a class action in NY

By John Wesley Hall, Jr.

In today's NYTimes: The Right to Counsel: Woman Becomes a Test Case. A PD is alleged to have had a client plead to a felony that was not a felony, and a class action resulted that is argued this week in the New York Court of Appeals: Usually, such a minor case would go unnoticed; a little test of the constitutional right to a lawyer, results unknown. Instead it has made Mr. Barber an emblem of the problems of the state’s ramshackle system of providing lawyers for indigent defendants. On Tuesday, New York’s highest court is to consider a class-action suit, filed by civil liberties lawyers in Ms. Hurell-Harring’s name, that seeks broad changes in the state’s frayed network of public defenders, who are routinely unmonitored and often overwhelmed...continue to full post

Full post as published by Law Of Criminal Defense on March 21, 2010 (boomark / email).