Five defender groups, which represent 22 percent of the indigent criminal defendants in New York City, have filed an amicus brief supporting the city’s motion for dismissal of a lawsuit brought by five county bar associations to block plans to sharply curtail the private bar’s role in representing the poor.
On Monday, Manhattan Acting Supreme Court Justice Anil Singh accepted the groups’ amicus brief, which contends the bar groups’ legal position would have “a devastating impact” not only on their operations but for the criminal justice system as a whole.
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