Feb. 16, 2000

No Merit

These cases are significant losses for indigent defendants who do not have the resources to hire lawyers and instead must rely on appointed counsel.

Erwin Chemerinsky

Dean and Jesse H. Choper Distinguished Professor of Law, UC Berkeley School of Law

Erwin's most recent book is "Worse Than Nothing: The Dangerous Fallacy of Originalism." He is also the author of "Closing the Courthouse," (Yale University Press 2017).