ALBANY – The state’s high court tomorrow will hear a wide-ranging challenge to New York’s 45-year-old system for providing legal representation to indigent criminal defendants.

At oral argument in the case, lawyers for the state will ask the Court of Appeals to affirm the dismissal of a 2007 lawsuit brought by the New York Civil Liberties Union seeking to overturn the system.

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