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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August 29, 2023
South Dakota Unified Judicial System’s Task Force to Examine the Delivery of Indigent Defense Pierre, South Dakota
Executive Director David Carroll and Senior Program Manager Aditi Goel participate in the Task Force meeting studying indigent defense services.
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July 31, 2023
South Dakota Unified Judicial System’s Task Force to Examine the Delivery of Indigent Defense Pierre, South Dakota
Executive Director David Carroll and Senior Program Manager Aditi Goel participate in the Task Force meeting studying indigent defense services.
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June 20, 2023
South Dakota Unified Judicial System’s Task Force to Examine the Delivery of Indigent Defense Pierre, South Dakota
Executive Director David Carroll and Senior Program Manager Aditi Goel participate in the Task Force meeting studying indigent defense services.
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May 11, 2023
Oregon Legislature, Senate Rules Committee Salem, Oregon
Deputy Director Jon Mosher participates in a formal information session on proposed indigent defense system reforms at the invitation of the Committee Chair. Mosher testifies on the absence of state accountability and the financial conflicts of interest caused by Oregon’s continued use of flat fee contracting for direct services.
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April 26, 2023
South Dakota Unified Judicial System’s Task Force to Examine the Delivery of Indigent Defense Pierre, South Dakota
Executive Director David Carroll and Senior Program Manager Aditi Goel participate in the Task Force meeting studying indigent defense services.
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March 31, 2023
South Dakota Unified Judicial System’s Task Force to Examine the Delivery of Indigent Defense Pierre, South Dakota
Executive Director David Carroll and Senior Program Manager Aditi Goel present to the Task Force on the history of the right to counsel in America, 6AC’s evaluation methodology, and a comparison of South Dakota’s indigent system to other states.
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March 2, 2023
United States Department of Justice, Office for Access to Justice, National Public Defense Day Tour Miami, Florida
Executive Director David Carroll presents “Early Appointment of Counsel at Gideon’s 60th Anniversary,” as the DOJ launch a cross-country tour in honor of the 60th Anniversary of Gideon v. Wainwright called “Six Stops for the Sixth Amendment” elevating the importance of public defense services. The event featured the Deputy Attorney General, Lisa Monaco, and Director of the Office for Access to Justice, Rachel Rossi.
February 23, 2023
Oregon Public Defense Services Commission, Annual Public Defense Providers Summit By videoconference
Deputy Director Jon Mosher presents the right to counsel in Oregon, and the need for legislative reforms to state’s indigent defense system to correct deficiencies identified in 6AC’s statewide evaluation.
February 8, 2023
New York University School of Law New York, New York
Program Manager Rachael Liebert speaks to first-year law students on the important role critical indigent defense systems play in the criminal justice system and the role of defense counsel in plea bargaining.
January 11, 2023
University of Connecticut School of Law Hartford, Connecticut
Program Manager Rachael Liebert speaks to first-year law students on the critical role strong indigent defense systems play in the criminal justice system and the role of defense counsel in plea bargaining.
November 16, 2022
Harvard Kennedy School of Government, Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy, Program in Criminal Justice Policy and Management. Cambridge, Massachusetts
Senior Program Manager Aditi Goel presents at the program’s "The Myths of Public Safety: Pretrial" speaker series – organized by Program Director Katy Naples-Mitchell and Professor Sandra Susan Smith – on 6AC’s research in various jurisdictions on the early appointment of counsel and systemic pressures that indigent people face to waive their right to counsel.
September 2, 2022
California Revision of the Penal Code By videoconference
Senior Program Manager Aditi Goel presents on a panel about the early appointment of counsel and observations from 6AC’s evaluation in Santa Cruz, CA. Also as panelists were Professor Paul Heaton at the Quattrone Center for the Fair Administration of Justice at UPenn Law, Office of the State Public Defender Indigent Defense Improvement Division Executive Director Galit Lipa, and Associate Judge Juliet J. McKenna of the D.C. Superior Court.
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.
