ALBANY – The state will provide New York City and counties outside the city a measure of the relief they have been seeking for decades to pay for constitutionally mandated representation for New York’s indigent criminal defendants.
While falling well short of a state takeover of the approximate $450 million annual cost of providing counsel as the Supreme Court mandated in Gideon v. Wainwright, 372 U.S. 335 (1963), the 2017-18 budget sets the stage for state assumption of a larger portion of localities’ indigent defense funding.
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