Unclogging Gideon's trumpet; Mississippi suits are the latest to attack state defense funding
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Issues concerning Mississippi's leaving indigent criminal defense to its counties and its hidden erosion of the Sixth Amendment right to counsel are discussed. Leaving indigent criminal defense to the counties violates the Supreme Court's guarantee of state-funded indigent criminal defense in Gideon v. Wainwright.
Publication Name: The National Law Journal
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0162-7325
Year: 2000
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Can the bar fill the LSC's shoes? Law firms find meeting the ABA pro bono goal for billable hours is tough
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Attorneys are having a hard time meeting the terms of the ABA Pro Bono Challenge and critics of the Republican stance that the private sector would make up for cuts in government funding cite this as evidence that this is expecting too much of the private sector. Critics of the Legal Services Corp. (LSC) still defend the proposed cuts and feel the private sector and charities could fill the breach.
Publication Name: The National Law Journal
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0162-7325
Year: 1996
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LSC invites law firms to the legal services game; but legal aid lawyers fear that clients, and current grantees, will pay the price
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Legal services lawyers are fighting a Congress which has cut the Legal Services Corp's (LSC) budget by one-third and placed restrictions on its grantees' use of private funds. A Hawaii court found in Legal Aid Society v. Legal Services Corp. that the restrictions on the use of private funds were unconstitutional. LSC grantees hailed this as a victory and prepare to file similar suits across the country. Another trend is opening legal services for the poor to bidding by private sector law firms. This trend concerns the LSC as the cheapest arrangement does not necessarily promise the best legal work.
Publication Name: The National Law Journal
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0162-7325
Year: 1997
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