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City Bar Lobbies Governor to Cover Indigent Defense (New York Law Journal)
New York Law Journal, August 2, 2016
City Bar Lobbies Governor to Cover Indigent Defense
Committing the state to cover all costs of representing indigent defendants would make the criminal justice system more “fair, just and effective,” the New York City Bar Association said.
In a letter to Gov. Andrew Cuomo, city bar president John Kiernan and John Savarese, chair of the bar’s task force on mass incarceration, urged the governor to sign A10706/S8114, which creates a phase-in schedule for the state to assume indigent representation costs (NYLJ, June 21).
