Publications

Reports

• A Fair Fight: Achieving Indigent Defense Resource Parity (September 2019)
• The Right to Counsel in Wayne County, Michigan: Evaluation of Assigned Counsel Services in the Third Judicial Circuit (August 2019)
• The Right to Counsel in Maine: Evaluation of Services Provided by the Maine Commission on Indigent Legal Services (April 2019)
• Juvenile Facilities Checklist for Defenders (April 2019)
• Prosecution and Public Defense: The Prosecutor's Role in Securing a Meaningful Right To an Attorney (March 2019)
• Engaging Key System Actors in Support of the Right to Counsel (March 2019)
• Texas Mental Health Defender Programs by Texas Indigent Defense Commission (October 2018)
• The Trial Penalty: The Sixth Amendment Right To Trial on the Verge of Extinction and How To Save It by NACDL (July 2018)
• Mississippi's No-Counsel Courts by Center For Access to Justice (May 2018)
• Right to Counsel National Consortium Third Annual Meeting (November 2017)
• Americans' Views on Public Defenders and The Right to Counsel, Beldon Russonello Strategists (November 2017) and Messaging Guide
• Gideon at 50 Project: A Three-Part Examination of Indigent Defense in America, NACDL (March 2013-October 2016)
• Elements of Professional Expertise: Understanding Relational and Substantive Expertise through Lawyers' Impact (September 2015)
• Spreading Justice to Rural Montana: Rurality's Impacts on Supply and Demand for Legal Services in Montana (August 2015)
• Indigent Defense Reforms in Brooklyn, New York: An Analysis of Mandatory Case Caps and Attorney Workloads (April 2015)
• Don't I Need a Lawyer: Pretrial Justice and the Right to Counsel at First Judicial Bail Hearing, The Constitution Project National Right to Counsel Committee (March 2015)
• What Makes Lawyers Happy? Transcending the Anecdotes with Data from 6200 Lawyers (2015)
• Me and Mr. Jones: A Systems-Based Analysis of a Catastrophic Defense Outcome (2015)
• Make Them Hear You: Participatory Defense and the Struggle for Criminal Justice Reform (2015)
• What is the State of Empirical Research on Indigent Defense Nationwide? A Brief Overview and Suggestions for Future Research (2015)
• The Measure of Good Lawyering: Evaluating Holistic Defense in Practice (2015)
• Adherence of Public Defense Providers to ABA Ten Principles, BJA & Right to Counsel TA (December 2014)
• Highlights
• Perceptions, Benchmarks Achieved in Practice, Issues Encountered, and Technical Assistance Needs Emerging
• Supporting Materials
• Issue Paper: Summary Survey Findings
• Predictors of Juveniles' Noncompliance with Probation Requirements (June 2014)
• Legal Aid and Public Defense Services: A Global Perspective (Summary), JPO (May 2014)
• Rationing Justice: The Underfunding of Assigned Counsel Systems, NACDL (March 2013)
• National Indigent Defense Reform: The Solution is Multi-faceted, ABA & NACDL (Jan. 2013)
• Three Minute Justice: Haste and Waste in Florida's Misdemeanor Courts, NACDL (July 2011)
• Justice Denied: America's Continuing Neglect of Our Constitutional Right to Counsel, National Right to Counsel Committee(April 2009)
• Minor Crimes, Massive Waste: The Terrible Toll of America's Broken Misdemeanor Courts, NACDL (April 2009)
• Public Defense Reform Since Gideon: Improving the Administration of Justice by Building on our Successes and Learning from our Failures, JPO & NLADA (September 2008)
• Gideon's Broken Promise: America's Continuing Quest for Equal Justice, ABA SCLAID (Dec 2004)
• Improving Public Defense Systems: Good Practices for Federal Panel Attorney Programs, Vera Institute (June 2003)

Articles

• Foreward to 78 Albany Law Review 1175 (2015)
• How Do We "Do Data" in Public Defense? (2015)
• The ABA "Ten Principles of a Public Defense Delivery System": How Close Are We to Being Able to Put Them into Practice? (2015)
• The Trials of Indigent Defense: Type of Counsel and Case Outcomes in Felony Jury (2015)

Statistics

• Indigent Defense Services in the United States, Bureau of Justice Statistics (July 2014)
• State Government Indigent Defense Expenditures, Bureau of Justice Statistics (July 2014)

Workload Assessments

• The Committee for Public Counsel Services Answering Gideon's Call Project Attorney Workload Assessment (October 2014)
• The Missouri Project: A Study of the Missouri Public Defender System and Attorney Workload Standards (June 2014)