Expert Services
We provide technical assistance that is tailored to the unique needs and requests in each jurisdiction. This ranges from staffing government task forces, to holding confidential one-on-one meetings, to testifying before legislatures when asked. We also educate the public through speaking engagements, our Pleading the Sixth blog, and sharing what we know about the right to counsel so you can help fix the issue.
Government Technical Assistance
Speaking Engagements
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March 22, 2017
Idaho Public Defender Commission & General Assembly Boise, Idaho
Executive Director David Carroll discusses the progress made by the Public Defender Commission in implementing recent legislative changes to ensure the right to counsel, including comparisons to similarly situated states and next steps.
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February 24, 2017
Tennessee Supreme Court, Indigent Representation Task Force Nashville, Tennessee
Executive Director David Carroll testifies about proposed reforms to Tennessee’s primary and conflict indigent defense services.
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January 13, 2017
Tennessee Supreme Court, Indigent Representation Task Force Nashville, Tennessee
In order to guarantee that the indigent representation system in Tennessee is addressing the needs of its recipients as well as benefiting the taxpayers, the Task Force is reviewing the state’s current system of providing representation to the poor. 6AC Executive Director David Carroll testifies about statewide indigent defense commissions.
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January 9, 2017
Mississippi Public Defender Task Force Jackson, Mississippi
Executive Director David Carroll and 6AC Counsel Mike Tartaglia discuss preliminary findings from 6AC’s statewide evaluation of public defense.
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October 21, 2016
Tennessee Supreme Court, Indigent Representation Task Force Nashville, Tennessee
In order to guarantee that the indigent representation system in Tennessee is addressing the needs of its recipients as well as benefiting the taxpayers of Tennessee, the Task Force is reviewing the state’s current system of providing representation to the indigent. 6AC Executive Director David Carroll testifies at the Task Force meeting about statewide indigent defense commissions.
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September 21, 2016
Indiana Public Defender Commission Indianapolis, Indiana
Executive Director David Carroll presents the findings and recommendations from 6AC’s forthcoming October 2016 report of the first-ever statewide evaluation of trial level right to counsel services in Indiana since the state implemented what is widely known as “the Indiana model” for providing indigent defense representation.
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May 20, 2016
Council of State Governments – West Salt Lake City, Utah
The Council of State Governments West supports legislative coordination amongst 13 western states (Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming) and three territories (American Samoa, the Northern Mariana Islands, and Guam). 6AC Executive Director David Carroll presents a history of the right to counsel in the West while exploring pending systemic concerns and recent legislative victories.
May 3, 2016
Practicing Law Institute, One-Hour Briefing Seminar By videoconference
Executive Director David Carroll and Kathryn Marshall Ali, senior associate-in-charge of U.S. pro bono at Hogan Lovells US LLP, discuss “How the Private Bar Can Impact America’s Indigent Defense Crisis.”
April 14, 2016
Harvard Law School, course on Criminal Procedure: Adjudication “from bail to jail” Cambridge, Massachusetts
Executive Director David Carroll speaks to law students as part of a two-day panel of leaders who are engaging creatively in efforts to improve and reform the criminal justice system. Others on the panel are Victor Rosario, Cathy Bennett, and Ron Sullivan, in the finale to the course taught by Lecturer on Law Lisa Kavanaugh.
March 29, 2016
Boston University School of Law, seminar course on “Wrongful Convictions, Miscarriages of Justice, and the US Criminal Justice System” Boston, Massachusetts
At the invitation of Prof. Michael Schneider, Jon Mosher explains to students “The Principles of Effective Indigent Defense Systems.” He is joined by Chauncey Wood, a private criminal defense attorney who specializes in post-conviction representation.
February 20, 2016
University of Georgia School of Law, 11th Annual Working in the Public Interest Law Conference Athens, Georgia
Phyllis Mann joins a panel discussion on representation of defendants in misdemeanor offenses. Also on the panel are David Singleton, Executive Director of the Ohio Justice & Policy Center, and Gerry Weber, Senior Staff Counsel at Southern Center for Human Rights. UGA’s Associate Professor and Director of Civil Clinics Alex Scherr moderates the discussion.
February 6, 2016
Support Our Work
Criminal justice issues that disproportionately harm poor people, such as wrongful convictions and over-incarceration, cannot be fixed if indigent defendants are given attorneys who do not have the time, resources, or qualifications, to be a constitutional check on government. Yet, investment in improving indigent defense services remains largely neglected. The Sixth Amendment Center is the only nonprofit organization in the country that exclusively examines, uncovers, and helps fix the root of the indigent defense crisis in which inequality is perpetuated because poor defendants do not get a fair fight.
The Sixth Amendment Center is a tax-exempt 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization under EIN: 45-3477185.
Donations are tax-deductible to the fullest extent allowable under the law.
