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Second, the Act would improve the quality of legal representation for indigent defendants in capital cases through federal incentives to states. Lawyers assigned by the court to these unpopular and unprofitable cases are often inexperienced, overworked or incompetent. It is little wonder that over half of all death sentences are...
Now, spurred in part by last year's unwelcome attention, Texas's legislature is poised to pass a bill overhauling the state's public defense system, providing $12 million to pay for lawyers representing indigent defendants and mandating guidelines for defense attorneys. Under the new bill, each county in Texas...
While the public at large has been mostly receptive to the overhauls, which can be expensive, there are some, like Texas representative Terry Keel, who fear that legislating standards of legal representation will merely prove burdensome to the state and to defendants themselves. In a statement last month, Keel argued...
The children who are left when parents die only add another complex dimension to Africa's epidemic. At 17, Tsepho Phale has been head of an indigent household of three young boys in the dusty township of Monarch, outside Francistown, for two years. He never met his father, his mother...
Judge Chrzanowski, 34, and Michael Fletcher, 31, started working together in 1997, when Fletcher, fresh from the University of Detroit Mercy School of Law, was her clerk in Michigan's 37th District Court, in Warren. After Fletcher passed the bar exam, Chrzanowski, by now his lover, helped jump-start his...