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    Gideon at 50 Part I - Rationing Justice: The Underfunding of Assigned Counsel Systems

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    National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL)
    Bibliographic Citation
    Gideon at 50 Part I - Rationing Justice: The Underfunding of Assigned Counsel Systems. Report by the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL). Washington, D.C.: NACL, 2013. Retrieved at: https://perma.cc/A8RC-VA7W?type=pdf.
    Abstract
    This report documents the unreasonably low rates of compensation paid to private attorneys who represent indigent defendants in state courts. The lack of adequate funding restricts the pool of attorneys willing to represent indigent defendants and creates conflicts of interest for attorneys by encouraging them to limit the amount of work they perform on a case for an indigent client. More experienced attorneys refuse to participate in assigned counsel systems that pay hourly rates far below the market rate while younger attorneys, who are often burdened by student loans, never even consider joining the defense bar. Even more troubling is the possibility that low hourly rates will encourage some attorneys to accept more clients than they can effectively represent in order to make ends meet. The result is an inadequate, inexperienced, overworked and inherently conflicted pool of attorneys accepting court appointments in our criminal courts.
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    Permalink to abstract in DG: http://hdl.handle.net/10822/761418
    Date
    2013-03
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    Subject
    Gideon v. Wainwright 372 U.S. 335 (1963); Public defenders; Legal assistance to the poor--United States; Criminal justice--Administration of;
    Type
    Record (document)
    Publisher
    National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL)
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    • Equal Justice Reports and Proceedings (Gray Literature collection)
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