Free Market—Not More Money—Needed to Reform Public Defender Services
The uniform refusal of American jurisdictions to allow freedom of choice in indigent defense creates the conditions for a double disaster. In violation of free-market principles that are honored almost everywhere else, the person who has the most at stake is allowed no say in choosing the professional who will provide him one of the most important services he will ever need.
Free Market—Not More Money—Needed to Reform Public Defender Services -
Criminal defense systems are in a state of perpetual crisis, routinely described as "scandalous." Public defender offices around the country face crushing caseloads that necessarily compromise the quality of the legal representation they provide. In a new paper, Professors Stephen J. Schulhofer and David Friedman examine the broken criminal defense system and propose free market solutions to better serve indigent defendants.
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