Right to an Attorney? Not Always in Some States
By Sarah Breitenbach
Published on pewtrusts.org on April 11, 2016
Excerpt:
“Former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder has called insufficient criminal defense for indigent people a national crisis, and the Justice Department has investigated
There is a lack of funding for public defense in every state, according to Colette Tvedt of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers; and people charged with low-level misdemeanors, often poor minorities, suffer the most.”