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Inadequate Public Defender Funding Unconstitutional
Loaded on Feb. 15, 1997
published in Prison Legal News
February, 1997, page 23
A federal district court in Illinois held that a lack of adequate funding for public defenders assigned to represent indigent defendants in state court appeals violates the federal constitution when it causes delays in excess of two years. Over the past ten years the number of appeal cases assigned to ...
Filed under:
Attorneys,
Public Defenders,
Class Certification,
Appeals,
Habeas Corpus.
Location:
Illinois.
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