A member of the University of Georgia’s law school faculty, testifying before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday, said that while the U.S. Supreme Court has recognized the importance of providing legal counsel to misdemeanor defendants, courts across the nation “routinely violate this constitutional mandate.”
UGA law professor Erica Hashimoto described what she called a national “constitutional crisis” caused by “the massive volume of misdemeanor cases” in which defendants are never represented by lawyers at public expense even though they have “a clear constitutional right to counsel.”
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