Committing the state to cover all costs of representing indigent defendants would make the criminal justice system more “fair, just and effective,” the New York City Bar Association said.
In a letter to Gov. Andrew Cuomo, city bar president John Kiernan and John Savarese, chair of the bar’s task force on mass incarceration, urged the governor to sign A10706/S8114, which creates a phase-in schedule for the state to assume indigent representation costs (NYLJ, June 21).
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