The constitutional crisis of public defenders | Opinion
not just the benefits to criminal justice, but also that the legislation will allow localities to cut property taxes.
South Dakota, which is one of two states that does not provide any state funding for public defense, has taken the first steps toward reform by creating aAnd in Pennsylvania, the other state that does not provide state funding for public defense, Gov. Josh Shapiro hasAt a time of tense partisan divides, public defense is that rarest of issues — one that unites our duty to the Constitution with direct benefits to taxpayers, while also having bipartisan and popular support. A 2017 survey by the U.
After Clarence Earl Gideon wrote his letter, he was retried with competent defense counsel. The verdict? Not guilty. He spent two years in prison for a crime he did not commit. Without his efforts, “the vast machinery of American law would have gone on functioning undisturbed,” then-Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy noted after the Gideon decision. “And the whole course of American legal history has been changed.
Sixty years later, it is time for us to address this crisis and honor the promise of Gideon, and of our Constitution, by fully funding public defender offices. Laura Arnold is the co‐founder and co‐chair of Arnold Ventures. Doug Deason is the president of the Deason Foundation. They wrote this for The Dallas Morning News.
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