Sentences with phrase «public defense systems»

In subsequent years, NLADA established the National Defender Project to strengthen public defense systems, filed an amicus brief in the landmark In re Gault (1967) which saw the Supreme Court extend to children the rights established by the Gideon decision, and produced guidelines to improve representation by public defenders.

For more than a century, we have pioneered access to justice at the national, state, and local levels in multiple ways: helping create many of the first public defense systems in the country; supporting the Legal Services Corporation; developing nationally applicable standards for legal representation; and advocating for groundbreaking legislation.

The lawsuit charged that New York State's decision to abdicate responsibility for public defense to its counties resulted in a patchwork of often understaffed, poorly resourced and largely dysfunctional public defense systems where defendants were routinely arraigned without attorneys, urged to take plea bargains regardless of the facts of their cases, burdened by excessively high bail, and incarcerated for shockingly long periods for misdemeanors and petty crimes.

Under the agreement, the state will adopt major reforms focusing on five New York counties — Ontario, Onondaga (Syracuse), Schuyler, Suffolk and Washington — that were chosen because their public defense systems are all different and cover communities large and small, but are all emblems of New York's flawed approach.

Howie Hawkins, the Green Party candidate for Governor, said today that he supported the state taking over the public defense system in NY to ensure adequate funding for legal representation for poor New Yorkers.

«On every placard is a story about an actual case in New York, where the public defense system failed a person's right to counsel,» said Bob Perry is the New York Civil Liberties Union legislative director.

«On every placard is a story about an actual case in New York, where the public defense system failed a person ’s

With New York's public defense system in the national spotlight, the state has entered this agreement and shown it will no longer stand by while innocent people lose their families, homes and jobs because they're too poor to hire private lawyers.

The New York Civil Liberties Union and the law firm of Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP today announced a historic settlement that overhauls public defense in five counties and lays the foundation for statewide reform of New York's broken public defense system.

«For far too long, poor criminal defendants in New York have been railroaded by a public defense system that did little more than process guilty pleas and ruin lives.»

* How do we go about changing the public defense system, which serves ~ 80 % of all defendants?

«This settlement marks what we hope and expect to be the beginning of sweeping reforms of New York's broken public defense system,» said NYCLU Associate Legal Director Christopher Dunn.

Indeed, Idaho Gov. C.L. «Butch» Otter, many legislators and legal experts who have studied the issue on behalf of the state have all acknowledged that Idaho's patchwork public defense system is deficient at best, and likely unconstitutional.

But last year a lower court judge dismissed the lawsuit, partly because the judge said he believed a court ruling requiring the state to adequately fund the public defense system would violate the separation of powers.

Not exact matches

VA Secretary David Shulkin said that there was a «public interest exception» for giving Cerner the contract without examining other bids, especially considering that the system would better be able to communicate with the Defense Department's EHR tech, which Cerner also worked on.

Moreover, can Postol explain the fact that, with all the current civil defense measures available in Israel during the 2006 Lebanon war, including public alarm systems and shelters already in place, Hezbollah rockets killed scores of Israelis while the same kinds of rockets now fired by Hamas fail to achieve anywhere near the same degree of lethality?

Yet even a purely laissez - faire system requires government to enforce contracts, protect private property, prevent fraud, produce public goods such as defense and roads, and protect third parties from «externalities» such as pollution and public hazards.

My taxes pay for a lot of things that we take for granted, police officers, teachers, public schools, our highway systems and bridges, roads and light fixtures for our everyday usage and our countries defense by way of paying our men and women who are defending our lives right now both here and abroad.)

Given the sad state of our highways, public transportation systems and other material infrastructure, as well as the severe needs of our educational system, increased government spending in these areas could take up the slack in declining defense expenditures while contributing enormously to the potential productivity of the United States.

Ahead of it, the organization is calling on Governor Andrew Cuomo to implement reforms, most notably replacing the county - based system of public defense with one run by the state, with adequate funding.

«We are all shocked that the governor vetoed a bill that would have reduced racial disparities in the criminal justice system, helped ensure equal access to justice for all New Yorkers, provided improved public defense programs for those who can not afford an attorney, and much - needed mandate relief for counties,» Gradess said.

That our public system of defense in New York can be vastly improved,» said Albany County Executive Dan McCoy.

In fact, Brooklyn Defender Services, a public defense group, said in a letter to Cuomo that each year the agency represents thousands of legitimate working people who get caught up in the criminal justice system for possession of a tool they need for work.

Gianaris questioned the position of Republican senators who oppose a public campaign financing system, but support allowing politicians to seek state reimbursement for criminal defense fees.

«Improving the quality of justice and fostering public trust and confidence in our justice system are critical objectives that the courts, law enforcement and the defense bar all share,» Lippman said in a statement.

The public legal defense system in Onondaga County is being highlighted by a civil liberties group on the eve of a lawsuit against the state to change it.

PREVIOUS, JUNE 2 AM: Oliver Stone and his producing partner Moritz Borman have thrown their hats in the ring and will make a movie about Edward Snowden, the former systems administrator for the CIA and a counterintelligence trainer at the Defense Intelligence Agency who later worked for the National Security Agency and then made public thousands of classified documents, an act which has been called the most significant leak in U.S. history since the release of the Pentagon Papers by Daniel Ellsberg.

Some 11 years after the U.S. Supreme Court upheld Texas's system of financing public schools, the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund has launched a new challenge in state court, charging that the finance system denies students in poor districts equal educational opportunity and should be declared unconstitutional.

In that case Jepsen and Malloy used public funds to come to the defense of Malloy's Commissioner of Education, Stefan Pryor, when Pryor decided that while the law required that Paul Vallas could only stay on as the head of Bridgeport's school system if he completed a school leadership program at a Connecticut institution of higher education, Pryor would allow Vallas to stay if he only took a three - credit independent study class instead.

The school system and public education advocates believe the county commissioners — by way of the local taxpayers — are the «last line of defense» against reduced state and federal funding and other unfunded state mandates.

With 1 out of 4 living in poverty — far more than any other industrialized country (nearly double what it was 30 years ago); a more tattered safety net — more who are homeless, without health care, and without food security; a more segregated and inequitable system of public education, in which the top schools spend 10 times more than the lowest spending; we nonetheless have a defense budget larger than that of the next 20 countries combined and greater disparities in wealth than any other leading country.

In the late 1960s sociologist Kenneth Clark, whose work helped form the basis of the Brown v. Board of Education decision, advocated for alternative public school systems run by institutions ranging from universities to the Department of Defense.

A good resource for parents who have lost faith in the public school system is the Home School Legal Defense Association.

Although, in Richard Carranza's defense, modifications to New York City's application system for public middle and high schools have been hotly debated topics for years.

Project Vote Smart - A Voter's Self Defense System Project Vote Smart is a national library of factual information on over 13,000 elected offices and candidates for public office — President, Governors, Congress and State Legislatures.

Management of the Rockaways» power grid has been taken over by PSEG Long Island, part of Public Service Enterprise Group, which in early October issued an updated plan called Utility 2.0 that aims to modernize the company's electric system and may open the door to a microgrid project, said Jackson Morris, formerly of Pace University's Energy and Climate Center and now director of eastern energy for the Natural Resources Defense Council.

He is a recipient of the NASA Exceptional Achievement Medal, the AIAA Space Systems Medal, and the Department of Defense Distinguished Public Service Medal, the highest award given to a non-government employee.

Pretrial Practices in Two Texas Jurisdictions: A Comparison of Risk - Informed and Financial Pretrial Release Systems - James D. Bethke, Texas Indigent Defense Commission; Dottie Carmichael, Texas A & M Public Policy Research Institute; Meg Ledyard, Travis County Courts

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Consequently, for a judge not to allow defense voir dire / cross examination questioning of a prosecution witness before a damning exhibit is allowed into evidence, presents not only a Due Process issue but also a possible perception of pro-prosecutorial bias of the judge, whether or not that bias exists, at least in the eyes of laypeople watching the trial, when a critical element of a sufficiently functioning judicial system is for the public to perceive judges as following their oaths of office.

An effective government provides an array of public goods, such as clean air, defense, public safety, public health, a legal system, an education system, roads, ports, water, etc..

Nancy T. Bennett is Deputy Chief Counsel for the Private Counsel Division of the Committee for Public Counsel Services (CPCS), After 9 years of felony Superior Court trial work, Nancy has been engaged since 1990 in developing and managing systems to ensure the quality of criminal defense representation provided by assigned private counsel in Massachusetts.

The Legal Files Software team ensured a seamless transition during the merger, and the software system is still in use today at the organization — now called the King County Department of Public Defense.

Hurrell - Harring v. New York would have been the first time any state stood trial for its public defense failures, calling attention to a nationwide criminal justice crisis where poor, or indigent, defendants are too often effectively denied the right to counsel, creating a two - tiered system of justice.

In an opinion that once again raises concerns about the state's shortage of funds for indigent capital defense, a divided Georgia Supreme Court has sent a death penalty case back to the trial court to determine if a systemic breakdown in the state's public defender system deprived the defendant of counsel.

Missouri SB 89 Abolishes the state public defender system and requires circuit courts to provide legal defense for indigents.

From the challenges confronted in the organizations of courts, to the laws behind police officers lying under oath, this thought leader has some deep insight into the judicial system, private and public defense, and attitude towards criminal law in the state of New Mexico, US.

A professional bar association founded in 1958, NACDL's approximately 9,200 direct members in 28 countries - and 90 state, provincial and local affiliate organizations totaling up to 40,000 attorneys — include private criminal defense lawyers, public defenders, active U.S. military defense counsel, law professors and judges committed to preserving fairness within America's criminal justice system.

American Council of Chief Defenders (ACCD)- The ACCD Conference convenes a national community of public defense leaders dedicated to securing a fair justice system and ensuring high quality legal representation for people facing loss of life, freedom, or family.

For a while, police departments tried to keep the use of cell - site simulators secret from not just the public but also the court system, withholding information from defense attorneys and judges — likely due to non-disclosure agreements with Harris Corporation.