ALBANY – A bipartisan group of state legislators is behind a bill that would expand indigent criminal defense reforms from the five counties involved in the Hurrell-Harring litigation to all 57 counties outside of New York City.
The bill would require the state to take over the share of criminal defense spending that New York City and county taxpayers outside of the city have paid since such representation was decreed for indigent defendants by the U.S. Supreme Court in Gideon v. Wainwright, 372 U.S. 335 (1963).
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