ALBANY – Current and former prosecutors have squared off over whether court intervention is required to insure that New York state’s system of providing legal services to indigent defendants is constitutionally adequate.
In an amicus brief submitted to the Court of Appeals last week, 62 former state and federal prosecutors argue that a case now before the Court, Hurrell-Harring v. New York State, 66, raises serious questions about whether defendants are regularly denied competent counsel, contrary to the mandate of the landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Gideon v. Wainwright, 372 U.S. 335 (1963).
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