Public Defenders Hit Up To Six Times Harder Than Prosecutors By Sequester

Public Defenders Hit Up To Six Times Harder Than Prosecutors By Sequester: Fifty years ago today, the Supreme Court decided Gideon v. Wainwright, which established the right of criminal defendants to be represented by an attorney in state or federal court. Yet, as Andrew Cohen explains in a must-read piece over at The Atlantic, Gideon‘s promise has become more and more illusory in the wake of budget [...]/p