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Deputy Director Jon Mosher testifies at the invitation of the committee chair in a formal hearing on proposed indigent defense system reforms, including: structural independence; increased financial and qualitative oversight of direct services; and abolishing flat-fee contracting in favor of creating staff government public defender positions.

Deputy Director Jon Mosher and Senior Program Manager Aditi Goel present to the Task Force on 6AC’s evaluation of Illinois, public defender independence, and state accountability.

Deputy Director Jon Mosher presents on statewide structural issues and observations from 6AC’s evaluation in Oakland County (Pontiac), and necessary state legislative and policy reforms.

Executive Director David Carroll testifies during a formal hearing on Public Defender Commission Rules. Carroll speaks on the history of indigent defense reform in Idaho and the reasonableness of proposed rules at the invitation of the Committee Chair.

Executive Director David Carroll testifies during a formal hearing on Public Defender Commission Rules. Carroll speaks on the history of indigent defense reform in Idaho and the reasonableness of proposed rules at the invitation of the Committee Chair.

Deputy Director, Jon Mosher, and Program Manager, Aditi Goel present to the Illinois Supreme Court justices the findings and recommendations from The Right to Counsel in Illinois: Evaluation of Trial-level Public Defense Representation. There are two overarching reasons why the State of Illinois is defaulting on its constitutional right to counsel obligations. First, the state requires counties and courts to provide and predominantly fund indigent defense systems in a way that bakes in governmental interference with the right to counsel. Second, as one of only seven states with no state-level mechanism to oversee any aspect of trial-level right to counsel services, Illinois lacks information about every aspect of the varied indigent defense systems implemented by the county governments and courts in their efforts to fulfill the Sixth Amendment right to counsel responsibilities that the state has delegated to them.

Executive Director David Carroll and Senior Program Manager Aditi Goel present to the subcommittee on the history of the right to counsel in America, 6AC’s evaluation methodology, and a comparison of Ohio’s indigent system to other states, including Michigan, Massachusetts, and Mississippi.

Program Manager Aditi Goel and Deputy Director Jon Mosher present to Northwestern University Law School, Bluhm Legal Clinic regarding potential solutions for Illinois’ right to counsel deficiencies, national models, and pitfalls to avoid.

Program Manager Aditi Goel speaks as a panelist to law students at UVA Law on the necessary role indigent defense plays in strengthening our nation’s criminal justice system, 6AC’s unique approach to reform work, and 6AC’s recent successful reform efforts. Panelists include Alison Mollman, Staff Attorney, Equal Justice Initiative.

Program Manager Aditi Goel and Deputy Director Jon Mosher present to Northwestern University Law School, Bluhm Legal Clinic regarding 6AC’s Illinois study, findings and recommendations.

Executive Director David Carroll explains how he got into public defense, America’s indigent defense deficiencies, and solutions to be implemented. Particular emphasis is made on actual denial of counsel in misdemeanor courts.

Executive Director David Carroll and Deputy Director Jon Mosher present in “Effective Defense Representation in Death Penalty Trials in the United States,” a panel exploring how death penalty public defense services are structured and funded in the United States and China. Participants include: Hongyao Wu, Professor of Law, Dean of National Institute of Legal Aid, China University of Political Science and Law; Fan Chongyi, Honorary President of the National Academy of Law, China University of Political Science and Law, and Honorary President, Professor, and Doctoral Supervisor of the Institute of litigation law of China University of Political Science and Law; Miriam Conrad, former Federal Defender for the Districts of Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island; and Ira Belkin, Senior Research Fellow, New York University, School of Law & China University of Political Science and Law.