Illinois Supreme Court, Pretrial Implementation Task Force

Deputy Director Jon Mosher presents to the task force formally overseeing our statewide evaluation of right to counsel services in Illinois. Mosher shares some of 6AC’s key findings from our study with examples from site work to demonstrate specific concepts. In sum, 6AC established that Illinois has two overarching deficiencies when it comes to the right to counsel: (1) government interference in the delivery of public defense services, which manifests itself in ways that can vary from county to county; and (2) the state of Illinois has no mechanism for providing oversight of right to counsel services at the county level.