Equal Justice is Under Threat in Louisiana
Document Type
Opinion
Publication Date
5-4-2024
Publisher
Nexstar Media Inc.
Language
en-US
Abstract
Don’t look now, but there’s a power grab in Louisiana — one that might well destroy the ideal of equal justice in that state.
Some 85 percent of people in the state’s criminal justice system are too poor to afford their own attorney. Now a plan is moving forward for the governor’s office to wrest control of all “powers, duties, and responsibilities” over the state’s public defense system from the state’s public defense board. Now that he has signed the legislation, public defense is in the hands of a single state public defender, who serves at the governor’s pleasure for a two-year term.
Recommended Citation
Robert L. Tsai,
Equal Justice is Under Threat in Louisiana
,
The Hill
(2024).
Available at:
https://scholarship.law.bu.edu/shorter_works/297
Publisher URL
https://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/4641752-louisiana-public-defense-power-grab/
