This summit focused on the an verseey e anniversary of the gideon case. A promise and excitement following the United States Supreme Court decision has been a road trip marked by stoplight and heavy traffic. It was gideons mutual trumpet, the new book that talks about the harsh reality of the system where public defenders have to handle thousands of cases in a course of a year. Thats a tough reality whether its 500 or a thousand cases. Something that jim had an eye to handle more Business Litigation could not imagine handling and handling well. Thats why this anniversary and events like this are so important. They remind us why Court Funding and why funding of public defenders is so critical and invite vital. These days there is too much worry about funding the judicial system and not enough worry about the cost for equal justice. This is the 50th anniversary of gideon, more articles are written, more gatherings like this and more than any that i can remember. Maybe in California Armed
10th annual public defenders summit. Im so excited to be here today. Our office has been putting on this summit for the past 10 years. We draw together attorneys, community leaders, nonprofit leaders and directors and people committed to improving the criminal Justice System. We come together once a year to talk about the issues and problems that we want to solve. This year is a particularly special summit because yesterday marked the 50th an niversary of the Supreme Court decision. One of the most significant dimensions our country. On march 16, 1963, the court said you have a right to a lawyer. Even though it had been part of the constitution as the 6th amendment for years and years it was not recognized it was a right until they said it was an obligation by the state to provide a lawyer. It never would have happened unless gideon, a drifter who had been involved convicted for robbing a pool hall. At that time unless you were charged with a capital offense, you would not be given a l
Citizens will gather at the San Francisco public defenders 2013 justice summit on march 19 to discuss ways to better fulfill gideons promise justice for all where clarence combid gideon convicted to be stealing change at a pool hall. He wrote a petition to the Supreme Court from his jail cell arguing that his rights had been violated. He presented a victory for civil rights and justice. San francisco one of the first cities in the United States to establish a Public Defenders Office opened its doors in 1921. Whereas gideons promise lives on in the San Francisco Public Defenders Office which service 25,000 indigent people every year. Whereas city of the San Francisco joined with the public defenders and the legal aid lawyers to celebrate the right to counsel. Therefore be it resolved the San Francisco march 18th as gideon versus wayne right day as acknowledgment for the 50 years of the United States landmark decision as well as the work of the public defenders who continue to fulfill th
We are talking about the results which has proved if you change your approach then you can improve the results and in San Francisco, three years about before realignment and Evidence Base probation and sentencing we had over 7,000 individuals on probation, as a result we now currently have 5500 individuals under supervision and that includes all of this population that has been realigned in the state. Instead of a 78 percent failure rate which is what parole has, probation has a 77 percent success rate, again changing the focus. The number of felony probationers who were revoked and sent to state prison, 3 years ago was 75 percent in 2009, and in 2012 we sent 65 individuals. Of the 1310 felony probationers, 77 percent completed successfully and of the newly aligned positions, those are the ones that basically had had 78 percent failure rate. 65 percent have been in total compliance. No new law violations and 55 percent have had no arrest or sanctions or flashing incarceration. And they
Our country. On march 16, 1963, the court said you have a right to a lawyer. Even though it had been part of the constitution as the 6th amendment for years and years it was not recognized it was a right until they said it was an obligation by the state to provide a lawyer. It never would have happened unless gideon, a drifter who had been involved convicted for robbing a pool hall. At that time unless you were charged with a capital offense, you would not be given a lawyer. You had to represent yourself. The gideon decision changed that for felony cases and that brought other cases. But this is still a basic right that we are fighting for each and every day there was a New York Times article yesterday, its called the right to council. Badly battered add at 50. In miami they handle more than 550,000 cases a year. All of city and county systems that pretty much rely on local funding to provide public defenders. In kentucky, 68 percent of poor people accused of misdemeanor short up for a