Sources

Guidelines

Judicial Interference

  • Aditi Goel, Judges’ Removal of Champaign County Public Defender Sets Off Alarms in Illinois, Sixth Amendment Center (Nov. 29, 2022).
  • Neel U. Sukhatme & Jay Jenkins, Pay to Play? Campaign Finance and the Incentive Gap in the Sixth Amendment’s Right to Counsel, 70 Duke L.J. 775 (2021).
  • Polk County v. Dodson, 454 U.S. 312, 321 - 22 (1981).
  • Powell v. State of Ala., 287 U.S. 45 (1932).
  • Understanding Gideon’s Impact, Part 2: The Birth of the Public Defender Movement, Sixth Amendment Center (last visited Sept. 30, 2023).

Workload

Staffing Requirements

Population

  • United States Census Bureau, Quick Facts (Oct. 1, 2023).