Activities in Other States


Overview:

NACDL Indigent Defense Site

NLADA Defender Legal Services site

ABA Standing Committee on Legal Aid and Indigent Defendants

Georgia:

Georgia Indigent Defense Act, adopted April, 2003

Report on Chief Justice's Blue Ribbon Commission on Indigent Defense, December, 2002.


Indiana:

Indiana Public Defender Commission Act, adopted 1989.


Louisiana:

Excerpt from: 2005 State of the Judiciary Address, Pascal F. Calogero, Jr., May 3, 2005.

In Defense of Public Access to Justice, March, 2004.


Louisiana v Citizen:

Louisiana Supreme Court Decision, April 1, 2005.

Opposition of Defendants to Application of Calcasieu Parish Police Jury for Supervisory Writ, May, 2004.

Motion to Determine Source of Funds to Provide Competent Defense, December, 2003

Motion to Determine Source of Funds to Provide Competent Defense, December, 2003.


Louisiana v Langley:

Motion to Stay Proceedings Pending Determination of Source of Funding, 2005.


Louisiana v Lewis:

Motion to Determine Source of Funds to Provide Competent Defense, December, 2004


Massachusetts:

A Case History of Reform, The Spangenberg Group, August, 2005.


Mississippi:

Assembly Line Justice - Mississippi's Indigent Defense Crisis, NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, March, 2003.


Montana:

ACLU News Release on 2005 Montana Public Defender Act, June 8, 2005.

Montana Public Defender Act, adopted 2005.

Complaint filed in White, et. al. v Martz, et. al. filed by the American Civil Liberties Union, 2004.


Nevada:

NLADA report, March, 2005.

Miranda v Clark County, Nevada, published by the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, February 3, 2003.


New York:

New York County Lawyers' Association v State and City of New York, issued by Judge Lucindo Suarez, of the Supreme Court of the State of New York on February 5, 2003.


North Carolina:

North Carolina Indigent Defense Services Statute.


North Dakota:

Indigent Defense Act

Indigent Defense Funding


Texas:

Texas Fair Defense Act, adopted 2002.


Virginia:

Indigent Defense Act.


Washington:

Best, et al v Grant County, Settlement Agreement, November 2, 2005.