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 3, 2014
Mississippi Supreme Court Task Force on Indigent Defense Jackson, Mississippi
David Carroll, along with Mississippi State Public Defender Leslie Lee, presents “The Right to Counsel in Mississippi: Findings & Recommendations.”
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October 17, 2013
Idaho Legislative Interim Committee on Indigent Defense Boise, Idaho
David Carroll presents information to the Committee about “How States Structure Right to Counsel Services.”
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August 15, 2013
Idaho Legislative Interim Committee on Indigent Defense Boise, Idaho
David Carroll discusses “The Right to Counsel: Constitutional Requirements, Standards & State Trends.”
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May 1, 2013
Michigan House Judiciary Committee Lansing, Michigan
David Carroll provides testimony on “The Right to Counsel in Michigan 50 Years after Gideon.”
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January 22, 2013
Utah State Legislature Salt Lake City, Utah
David Carroll makes his “Presentation before the President of the Utah Senate and the Speaker of the House.”
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October 31, 2014
University of Tennessee College of Law Knoxville, Tennessee
Jon Mosher presents an “Overview of the National Right to Counsel” at the UT Right to Counsel Symposium. The presentation describes the well-documented and long-standing systemic deficiencies across the country stemming from inadequate funding and resources and explains political and funding reforms responding to the crisis in indigent criminal defense.
October 8, 2014
New England School of Law Boston, Massachusetts
David Carroll presents on “Gideon at 50: America’s Indigent Defense Crisis.”
August 7, 2014
American Bar Association, Standing Committee on Legal Aid & Indigent Defendants and Criminal Justice Section Boston, Massachusetts
David Carroll presents on “The Criminal Justice Act at 50.”
April 18, 2014
National Association for Public Defense Lexington, Kentucky
David Carroll presents “Public Defense Workload: The National Perspective” at the NAPD’s three-day Workload Leadership Institute.
March 18, 2014
University of the District of Columbia Law School Washington, D.C.
Jon Mosher participates on a panel discussion, “Gideon 2.0 – Guaranteeing Effective Assistance of Counsel.” The discussion follows a special screening of HBO Film’s Gideon’s Army. Fellow panelists include: Ed Burnette (moderator), National Legal Aid & Defender Association; Christopher Durocher, The Constitution Project; Jenny Roberts, American University-Washington College of Law; Santha Sonenberg, Public Defender Service of the District of Columbia.
March 18, 2014
Boston University, School of Law Boston, Massachusetts
David Carroll follows up 2013’s address at BU with another discussing the impact of systemic indigent defense deficiencies on wrongful convictions. Special emphasis is placed on undue political and judicial interference, and the use of United States v. Cronic to get at how systemic deficiencies prevent even the best lawyers from providing constitutionally effective right to counsel services.
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.
