CRJU110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Public Defender, Preliminary Hearing, Excessive Bail Clause

• School: University of Delaware
• Department: Criminal Justice
• Course: CRJU110
• Professor: Parker Karen

Document Summary

Types of defense counsel: privately retained counsel, assigned counsel. Jurisdiction assigns indigent criminal cases to private attorney on a systematic or ad hoc basis: public defender. Representation is provided by a public nonprofit organization with full or part- time staff of attorneys and support personnel, including: investigators, paralegals, social workers, etc: contract system. Jurisdiction enters into a contract with an attorney, a group of attorneys, or entire firm to provide presentation in some or all indigent defendant cases. Indigent defendant: a poor defendant without funds to hire an attorney for his or her defense (entitled to counsel under 6th and 14th amendments) Assigned counsel: oldest and most widely used method in the history of american jurisprudence, operates in about 52% of u. s. counties, type of system used in most smaller jurisdictions. Attor(cid:374)eys are custo(cid:373)arily chose(cid:374) fro(cid:373) a judge"s liste(cid:374) ad desire to be chosen. Contract system: growing in prevalence (operates in about 11% of u. s. counties, across 6 states)