REVIEW OF LAW & SOCIAL CHANGE
Volume 15, Issue 4
CRIMINAL DEFENSE OF THE POOR IN NEW YORK CITY
Michael McConville & Chester L. Mirsky
Introduction: The Interdependence and Parallel Growth of Assigned Counsel and Institutional Defender Systems in New York City
Part One: The Origins, Goals and Development of the Indigent Defense System
- Chapter One: The Origins of the Indigent Defense System
- Chapter Two: State Involvement in the Financing of Criminal Defense
- Chapter Three: The Developing Crisis in Providing Representation to Indigent Criminal Defendants
Part Two: The Structure and Operation of the 18-B Panel and the Legal Aid Society
- Chapter Four: Research Goals and Method
- Chapter Five: The 18-B Panel's Operational Structure, Demographic Characteristics, and Work and Income Patterns
- Chapter Six: The Lawyering Practices of 18-B Panel Attorneys
- Chapter Seven: Caseload Division Between the 18-B Panel and the Legal Aid Society
- Chapter Eight: The "Shedding" of Legal Aid Society Cases to 18-B Panel Attorneys at Arraignment
- Chapter Nine: The Distribution of Multiple-Defendant (Conflict) Cases Between the Legal Aid Society and the 18-B Panel at Arraignment
- Chapter Ten: The "Shedding" of Legal Aid Society Cases to 18-B Panel Attorneys After Arraignment
- Chapter Eleven: The Relative Cost of 18-B Panel and Legal Aid Society Defense Services
Conclusion: The Intractability of Reform
Appendices