Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Administrative Law and Governmental RelationsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
Legal Services Corporation Reauthorization
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Administrative Law and Governmental RelationsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
Securing Reasonable Caseloads
Author: Norman LefsteinPublisher:
ISBN: 9780615543765
Category : Legal assistance to the poor
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
For the criminal justice system to work, adequate resources must be available for police, prosecutors and public defense. This timely, incisive and important book by Professor Norman Lefstein looks carefully at one leg of the justice system's "three-legged stool"public defenseand the chronic overload of cases faced by public defenders and other lawyers who represent the indigent. Fortunately, the publication does far more than bemoan the current lack of adequate funding, staffing and other difficulties faced by public defense systems in the U.S. and offers concrete suggestions for dealing with these serious issues.
Model Rules of Professional Conduct
Author: American Bar Association. House of DelegatesPublisher: American Bar Association
ISBN: 9781590318737
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
The Model Rules of Professional Conduct provides an up-to-date resource for information on legal ethics. Federal, state and local courts in all jurisdictions look to the Rules for guidance in solving lawyer malpractice cases, disciplinary actions, disqualification issues, sanctions questions and much more. In this volume, black-letter Rules of Professional Conduct are followed by numbered Comments that explain each Rule's purpose and provide suggestions for its practical application. The Rules will help you identify proper conduct in a variety of given situations, review those instances where discretionary action is possible, and define the nature of the relationship between you and your clients, colleagues and the courts.
Annual Survey of American Law
Author: Callaghan's Official Wisconsin Reports
Author: Wisconsin. Supreme CourtPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 968
Book Description
Chasing Gideon
Author: Karen HouppertPublisher: New Press, The
ISBN: 1595588698
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
On March 18, 1963, in one of its most significant legal decisions, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled in Gideon v. Wainwright that all defendants facing significant jail time have the constitutional right to a free attorney if they cannot afford their own. Fifty years later, 80 percent of criminal defendants are served by public defenders. In a book that combines the sweep of history with the intimate details of individual lives and legal cases, veteran reporter Karen Houppert movingly chronicles the stories of people in all parts of the country who have relied on Gideon’s promise. There is the harrowing saga of a young man who is charged with involuntary vehicular homicide in Washington State, where overextended public defenders juggle impossible caseloads, forcing his defender to go to court to protect her own right to provide an adequate defense. In Florida, Houppert describes a public defender’s office, loaded with upward of seven hundred cases per attorney, and discovers the degree to which Clarence Earl Gideon’s promise is still unrealized. In New Orleans, she follows the case of a man imprisoned for twenty-seven years for a crime he didn’t commit, finding a public defense system already near collapse before Katrina and chronicling the harrowing months after the storm, during which overworked volunteers and students struggled to get the system working again. In Georgia, Houppert finds a mentally disabled man who is to be executed for murder, despite the best efforts of a dedicated but severely overworked and underfunded capital defender. Half a century after Anthony Lewis’s award-winning Gideon’s Trumpet brought us the story of the court case that changed the American justice system, Chasing Gideon is a crucial book that provides essential reckoning of our attempts to implement this fundamental constitutional right.
ABA Standards for Criminal Justice
Author: American Bar AssociationPublisher:
ISBN: 9781570737138
Category : Criminal justice, Administration of
Languages : en
Pages : 151
Book Description
"Project of the American Bar Association, Criminal Justice Standards Committee, Criminal Justice Section"--T.p. verso.
IN RE RECORDER'S COURT BAR ASSOCIATION V CHIEF JUDGES OF WAYNE COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT AND RECORDER'S COURT, 443 MICH 110 (1993)
Author: Board of Contract Appeals Decisions
Author: United States. Armed Services Board of Contract AppealsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Defense contracts
Languages : en
Pages : 1480
Book Description
The full texts of Armed Services and othr Boards of Contract Appeals decisions on contracts appeals.
CIS Annual
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 960
Book Description