When Stephen F. Hanlon talks about leaving his job leading the nation’s largest private pro bono legal department at Holland & Knight in 2012, he likens it to taking a step into the unknown. His legal team was coming off a decisive victory in which the Missouri...
A FOLLOW UP TO THE FINDINGS IN: “The New Mexico Project – An Analysis of The New Mexico Public Defense System and Attorney Workload Standards” Published January 2022 To read the entire report click here.
“[T]he Supreme Court’s Sixth Amendment decisions regarding misdemeanor defendants are violated thousands of times every day. No Supreme Court decisions in our history have been violated so widely, so frequently, and for so long.” — Senator Charles Grassley,...
It is ironic that defendants in the courts are charged with violations of the law and then appear in courts where judges and prosecutors routinely violate the...
