Pleading the Sixth: The fear of government unduly taking away one’s liberty led the United States Supreme Court to unanimously declare it an “obvious truth” that no indigent person can be assured a fair trial against the “machinery” of law…
Tag: Nevada
The State of the Nation on Gideon’s 60th Anniversary
Tagged with: Alabama, California, Colorado, Delaware, funding, Gideon v. Wainwright, Guam, Idaho, Illinois, Iowa, Maine, Michigan, Nevada, New Mexico, New York, Ohio, oversight, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah
Broken Defense, a seven-part series exposes the depths of the indigent defense crisis in western states
Pleading the Sixth: Last week, Lee Enterprises published a seven-part series exposing the indigent defense crisis in the West. With data finally showing what the 6AC has known for years and has found in nearly every study – thousands of…
Tagged with: Actual Denial of COunsel, Arizona, California, caseloads & workloads, Colorado, funding, Idaho, independence, Montana, Nevada, North Dakota, Oregon, oversight, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Wyoming
2021 Year in Review
By Michael Tartaglia and Kourtney Kinchen 6AC presents this year in review to acknowledge the most significant reforms to how the right to counsel is funded and delivered across the United States. We wish all our readers a happy and…
Tagged with: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, caseloads & workloads, Colorado, Connecticut, criminal justice reform, funding, Idaho, Illinois, indigency - criteria, juvenile delinquencies & status offenses, juvenile transfer hearings, Kansas, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oregon, Texas, Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin
2019 Year in Review
Season’s Greetings from the 6AC! We at 6AC are privileged to travel all across the country to meet with criminal justice stakeholders and policymakers as we aim to help them ensure an effective right to counsel. This year brought us…
Tagged with: commissions, funding, Idaho, Indiana, litigation - systemic, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, Nevada, New York, North Dakota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Sixth Amendment Center, South Carolina, Tennessee, Utah, West Virginia, Wisconsin
Nevada creates and empowers a statewide indigent defense commission
Pleading the Sixth: After decades of public defense studies, legislative and supreme court right to counsel commissions, and numerous attempts at statutory indigent defense reform, the Nevada legislature has created a state commission to promulgate and enforce uniform standards statewide…
Report released evaluating the right to counsel in rural Nevada
Pleading the Sixth: Remote population centers across great geographic expanses, a paucity of attorneys, limited social services, almost no public transportation, restricted tax bases, and non-lawyer judges in misdemeanor courts, are just some of the problems states often face while…
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