Public Defense Standards

New York

Standards and Criteria for the Provision of Mandated Representation in Cases Involving a Conflict of Interest (Office of Indigent Legal Services) (eff. July 1, 2012)
22 NYCRR 127.7 Workload Of Attorneys And Law Offices Providing Representation To Indigent Clients In Criminal Matters In New York City (April 1, 2010)
Client Involvement and Satisfaction, Quality Representation and Vigorous Advocacy (2000) (PDF)
Client-Centered Representation Standards (2005) (PDF) Versión española (PDF)
Crisis in Legal Representation of the Poor (1st Dept 2001)
Determining Eligibility for Appointed Counsel in New York State (NYSDA 1994) (PDF)
General Requirements for All Organized Providers of Defender Services to Indigent Defendants (1st Dep't 1997) (PDF)
New York State Bar Association Revised Standards for Providing Mandated Representation (NYSBA 2010)
New York State Bar Association Standards for Providing Mandated Representation (NYSBA 2005)
New York State Public Defense Commission Act Proposal (2001) (PDF)
Standards for Providing Constitutionally and Statutorily Mandated Legal Representation in New York State (NYSDA 2004) (PDF)
Statement of Client's Rights (OCA)

National
ABA Criminal Justice Standards
American Council of Chief Defenders Statement on Caseloads and Workloads (ACCD 2007)
Comparative Analysis of Indigent Defense Expenditures and Caseloads in States With Mixed State and County Funding (Spangenberg Group 1998)
Contracting for Indigent Defense Services (BJA 2000)
Defense Counsel in Criminal Cases (BJS 2000)
Improving State and Local Criminal Justice Systems (BJA 1998)
Indigent Defense (BJS 1996)
Indigent Defense Services in Large Counties 1999 (BJS 2000)
Indigent Defense Statistics (BJS)
Indigent Defense Systems in the United States (Spangenberg Group 1995)
Keeping Defender Workloads Manageable (BJA 2001).
NLADA National Standards Collection
Redefining Leadership for Equal Justice: Final Report of the National Symposium on Indigent Defense 2000 (BJA 2000)
Standards of Practice for Attorneys Representing Parents in Abuse and Neglect Cases (ABA 2006)
State-Funded Indigent Defense Services 1999 (BJS 2001)
Ten Principles of a Public Defense Delivery System (ABA 2002)
Ten Tenets of Fair and Effective Problem Solving Courts (NLADA 2001)

States
Arizona: Indigent Defense in Arizona (NACDL 2001)
Georgia: Report of the Chief Justice's Blue Ribbon Commission on Indigent Defense (2002)
Nevada: Indigent Defense Services in the State of Nevada (Spangenberg Group 2000)
Oregon: Indigent Defense Task Force III Report (2000)
Tennessee: Tennessee Public Defender Case-Weighting Study (1999)
Texas: Texas Appleseed Fair Defense Project (2000-2001); Muting Gideon's Trumpet: The Crisis in Indigent Criminal Defense in Texas (State Bar of Texas 2000)
Vermont: Vermont Indigent Defense Task Force Report (2001)
Washington: Standards for Indigent Defense (2011)

Indexes, Bibliographies and Compilations
ABA Criminal Justice Section Collection of Standards
ABA Principle Resolutions on Indigent Defense
ABA Standing Committee on Legal Aid and Indigent Defendant Collection of Standards
Compendium of Standards for Indigent Defense Systems (BJA 2000)
Executive Session on Public Defense (Harvard)
NACDL Collection of Standards
NLADA Collection of Standards - (including the 1976 Guidelines of the National Advisory Commission on Defense Services, 1973 Standards for the Defense of the National Advisory Commission on Criminal Justice Standards and Goals, and several specific NLADA standards such as the 1995 Performance Guidelines for Criminal Defense Representation, 1989 Standards for the Administration of Assigned Counsel Systems, and 1980 Standards and Evaluation Design for Appellate Defender Offices)
Spangenberg Group Publications

Ethics Opinions
ABA Formal Opinion 06-441: Ethical Obligations of Lawyers Who Represent Indigent Criminal Defendants When Excessive Caseloads Interfere With Competent and Diligent Representation