ALBANY – Criminal defense advocates said that with the state Legislature’s unanimous passage of a bill requiring the state to take over indigent criminal defense costs in New York, their effort to correct a 50-year-old mistake will now focus on Gov. Andrew Cuomo.
Costs that have been borne primarily by New York City and the 57 counties outside the city since the state responded to the mandate in Gideon v. Wainwright, 372 U.S. 335 (1963), to provide counsel to all defendants who could not afford it, increasingly would be assumed by the state over seven years.
This content has been archived. It is available through our partners, LexisNexis® and Bloomberg Law.
To view this content, please continue to their sites.
Not a Lexis Subscriber?
Subscribe Now
Not a Bloomberg Law Subscriber?
Subscribe Now
LexisNexis® and Bloomberg Law are third party online distributors of the broad collection of current and archived versions of ALM's legal news publications. LexisNexis® and Bloomberg Law customers are able to access and use ALM's content, including content from the National Law Journal, The American Lawyer, Legaltech News, The New York Law Journal, and Corporate Counsel, as well as other sources of legal information.
For questions call 1-877-256-2472 or contact us at [email protected]
