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Gideon's Broken Promise: America's Continuing Quest for Equal Justice: A Report on the American Bar Association's Hearings on the Right to Counsel in Criminal Proceedings

Gideon's Broken Promise: America's Continuing Quest for Equal Justice: A Report on the American Bar Association's Hearings on the Right to Counsel in Criminal Proceedings

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American Bar Association. Standing Committee on Legal Aid and Indigent Defendants (Chicago, IL)

Published 2004. 62 pages.

The delivery of adequate and efficient defense services for indigent individuals is examined. Following an executive summary are these nine parts: introduction; problems in indigent defense -- lack of adequate funding, inadequate legal representation and structural defects in indigent defense systems; strategies for reform; model approaches to providing services; main findings; recommendations; and conclusion. Appendixes contain a list of witnesses, "ABA Ten Principles of a Public Defense Delivery System"; and a sample of individuals incarcerated in the U.S. during 2003-2004. Accession Number: 020291

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