{"id":1228,"date":"2003-08-19T08:55:26","date_gmt":"2003-08-19T12:55:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2003\/08\/19\/you-have-the-right-to-an-attorney\/"},"modified":"2003-08-19T08:55:26","modified_gmt":"2003-08-19T12:55:26","slug":"you-have-the-right-to-an-attorney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/08\/19\/you-have-the-right-to-an-attorney\/","title":{"rendered":"You Have the Right to an Attorney"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The right to an attorney is one of the most fundamental cornerstones
\n of the American criminal justice system.  In Boston’s Suffolk County,
\n the Comittee for Public Counsel Sercices, which provides public defenders
\n to the Suffolk courts, has been threatening to stop defending clients
\n because they are owed $15.4 million in back pay. Yesterday they made
\n good on that threat, refusing to take any new idigent clients.<\/p>\n

State lawmakers hastily passed an emergency funding bill, but the governor,
\n facing a billion-dollar deficit, has so far refused to sign, and the
\n lawyers refuse to take any new clients until he does. As the courts are
\n paralyzed, the pointing fingers are not, "This is a conundrum, not
\n of the court’s, but of the committee’s," said Suffolk Superior
\n Court Judge Jeffrey Locke.<\/p>\n

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