Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2016
Abstract
In Part I, I will describe the ways in which today's right-to-counsel challenges are similar to and different from those that faced the writers of the 1961 symposium. I will also explain in more detail why the structural conditions of criminal defense work to create (and, to some extent, always have created) a cultural problem in indigent defense delivery systems across the country. In Part II, I will discuss why I believe that we are, once again, facing a moment for potential reform, albeit reform that is different in scope and kind from that which was possible in the 1960s. Finally, in Part III, I will explore how a focus on improving the culture of indigent defense delivery systems through structural change can and should infuse current reform proposals and inform change going forward.
Recommended Citation
Primus, Eve Brensike. "Culture as a Structural Problem in Indigent Defense." Minn. L. Rev. 100, no. 5 (2016): 1769-821.
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