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Civil Rights

Mar. 14, 2003

Inadequate Counsel for Poor Frustrates Criminal Defenders

WASHINGTON - Forty years after the Supreme Court in Gideon v. Wainright ordered the states to provide counsel to indigent defendants, millions of people each year still face criminal charges without legal representation, a coalition of criminal defense organizations said Tuesday.

By David F. Pike
Daily Journal Staff Writer
        WASHINGTON - Forty years after the Supreme Court in Gideon v. Wainright ordered the states to provide counsel to indigent defendants, millions of people each year still face criminal charges without legal representation, a coalition of criminal defense organizations said Tuesday.
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