NYU School of Law

Volume 14, Issue 1

COLLOQUIUM:
EFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL FOR THE INDIGENT CRIMINAL DEFENDANT:
HAS THE PROMISE BEEN FULFILLED

Preface

Keynote Address
Norman Lefstein

Panel: Ethical Perspectives on the Provision of Counsel to the Indigent Defendant

• Divided Loyalties: Musings on Some Ethical Dilemmas for the Institutional Criminal Defense Attorney
  Martin Guggenheim
• The Ethical Dilemmas of Public Defenders in Impact Litigation
  Charles J. Ogletree & Randy Hertz
• Responses:
  Phyllis Skloot Bamberger, J. Vincent Aprile II, & Barbara Underwood
• Discussion
  James Jacobs, Moderator

Panel: Effective Assistance of Counsel: The Constitutional Standard

• The Adversary System, Advocacy, and Effective Assistance of Counsel in Criminal Cases
  Gary Goodpaster
• Responses:
  Vivian Berger, Joseph Grano, & Benjamin Lerner
• Discussion
  Susan Herman, Moderator

Panel: The Indigency Standard: Its Definition, Measurement, and Appropriateness

• Free Counsel: A Right, Not a Charity
  Jim Neuhard
• Determining Client Eligibility for Appointed Counsel: A Strategy for Reform in New York State
  Donna L. Hall & Jonathan E. Gradess
• Responses:
  Clay Hiles, John Arango, & Robert Spangenberg

Panel: New Models of Criminal Defens for the Indigent

• Effective Assistance on the Assembly Line
  Stephen J. Schulhofer
• Personal Failure, Institutional Failure, and the Sixth Amendment
  Albert W. Alschuler
• Criminal Trials, Negotiated Pleas, and the Effective Assistance of Counsel: Notes About and Toward a Theory of the Attorney's Role in Case Resolution
  Milton Heumann
• What is Assistance of Counsel Effective For?
  Richard L. Abel
• Comments:
  Bench Trials, Adversariness, and Plea Bargaining: A Comment on Schulhofer's Plan
  Malcolm M. Feeley
  Dilemmas in New Models for Indigent Defense
  Michael McConville
• Discussion
  Michael McConville, Moderator

 Panel: Systemic Challenges and Strategies for Reform

• Systems for Providing Indigent Defense: An Introduction
  Suzanne E. Mounts & Richard J. Wilson
• Litigative Approaches to Enforcing the Right to Effective Assistance of Counsel in Criminal Cases
  Richard J. Wilson
• The Right to Counsel and the Indigent Defense System
  Suzanne E. Mounts
• Systemic Reform: Some Thoughts on Taking the Horse Before the Cart
  Chester L. Mirsky
• Responses:
  Harold Rothwax, Richard McCahey, & Chester L. Mirsky
• Discussion
  Michael Smith, Moderator

Closing Arguments
William Hellerstein

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