Pretrial

The Right to Counsel National Campaign: Charting the Path to Change

Provide travel assistance for Judge Brian MacKenzie to attend and present on a panel, Judges as Champions of the Constitutional Right to Counsel

Will attend and participate in the 2017 Defender Research Consortium. This event is a continuation of gatherings held in Detroit and Baltimore where researchers, defenders, analysts, technologists, and others met to discuss ways to increase and improve research about indigent defense systems. Like those two, this meeting will be interactive, relying on attendee participation and not merely panel presentations. We will continue the discussion of “quality indigent defense” and examine efforts under way to put “quality indicators” into place to assess system performance.

Kentucky requested Patti Powers and Jim Markey to speak at there Prosecutor's training event. (DANY Support)

The film "Tribal Justice" will be shown at the Annual Conference of the National Consortium on Racial and Ethnic Fairness in the Courts. A discussion will be facilitated by Judge Claudette White and Jennifer Walter.

The Justice Programs Office will be presenting at the ASC Annual Conference on "The Future of Public Defense Research: Lessons from the Right to Counsel National Campaign"

This will be the third annual meeting hosted by the Right to Counsel National Campaign. The overall purpose of the meeting is to develop federal, state and local policy recommendations on the right to counsel from the R2C national consortium members.

Fund one speaker to lead a plenary and breakout session at NACM/IACA's Joint Annual Conference and coordinate and present 2 sessions. How We Can Resist a Culture of Injustice and Help Reform the System From Within (Breakout Following Plenary).

Fund one speaker to lead a plenary and breakout session at NACM/IACA's Joint Annual Conference and coordinate and present 2 sessions. How We Can Resist a Culture of Injustice and Help Reform the System From Within (Breakout Following Plenary).

The panel we hosted at the conference was called "Real Talk: How to effectively communicate the importance of strong community-oriented defenders." In this session, Zoë Root and Genevieve Citrin Ray discussed their work in the Right to Counsel National Campaign and the campaign’s recently released report entitled, American Views on the Right to Counsel and Public Defenders. Building on their personal experiences working in holistic defender offices, they presented the findings of the report and discuss how community-oriented defenders can use this information.