Sentence examples for defender systems from inspiring English sources

With more than 80 percent of defendants facing criminal charges unable to afford to pay for lawyers, public defender systems have come to define most criminal justice systems in the United States.

Only 24 states have statewide public defender systems.

If you ask me, defender systems are the new offenders.

Gideon prompted the widespread creation of public defender systems on which so many rely.

This group bears the brunt of our public defender systems' underfunding and overwork.

But our nation's public defender systems have long been plagued by underfunding and excessive caseloads.

Applying similar logic, we recently indicated that "[d]elay resulting from a systemic breakdown in the public defender system, could be charged to the State" as well.

Justice Ginsburg left the door open, though, to a challenge where the delay was caused by "a systemic breakdown in the public defender system".

Last year, in Vermont v. Brillon, the United States Supreme Court left open the question of what should happen when there is "a systemic breakdown in the public defender system".

In 2007, Corey Stoughton '02 began a long, serpentine journey through New York courts when she filed a class-action lawsuit on behalf of 20 criminal defendants claiming the state's public defender system had failed them.

He will work in New Orleans, where he will support a class action lawsuit challenging Louisiana's resource-starved public defender system as a violation of defendants' due process and equal protection rights.