Introduction

PART I: The Legal Profession and the Defense of Criminal Cases

1. In Defense of Inequality: The Legal Profession and Criminal Defense

2. Private Criminal Defense: Reassessing an Endangered Species

PART II: Indigent Defense Systems: Characteristics, Alternatives, and Relative Benefits

3. The Public Defender in America

4. Indigent Defense Systems: Characteristics and Costs

5. Assigned Counsel Versus Public Defender Systems in Virginia: A Comparison of Relative Benefits

6. Retained Counsel Versus the Public Defender: The Impact of Type of Counsel on Charge Bargaining

7. Effective Utilization of Private Lawyers in Indigent Defense-the Ontario Approach

8. Public Counsel for the Defense: The Danish System

PART III. The Quality, Effectiveness, and Productivity of Defense Counsel

9. Ineffective Assistance of Counsel: Attempts to Establish Minimum Standards

10. Defending the Accused: Counsel Effectiveness and Strategies

11. Measuring the Productivity of the Public Defender

Author Index

Subject Index

Index of Cases

About the Authors