Serving indigent & retained defendants- Former Virginia indigent defense lawyer leader on being fearless in court and trial

Send us Fan Mail The Constitution's Sixth Amendment and its appellate interpretations provide for effective assistance of counsel against criminal prosecutions, regardless of the defendant's ability to pay. Virginia's public defender system delivers beneficial service, but the state's indigent defense system is broken when it comes to the significant percentage of court-appointed private-practicing lawyers, who are ordinarily paid too little to give full meaning to the Sixth Amendment, leavin...