Bar News Looks at Public Defense

The February issue of the Washington State Bar News features public defense:

Articles

• Public Defense: Guaranteeing Justice for All by Chief Justice Gerry L. Alexander
  
• Making Gideon Real: Washington Counties and the Duty to Provide Effective Assistance of Counsel by David F. Taylor, Don Scaramastra, and Beth Colgan
  
• The State's Role in Defining the Constitutional Right to Counsel in Gideon by Rob McKenna
  
• Counsel for Poor Criminal Defendants: An American Tradition by Joanne Moore
  
• Right to Counsel Remains Threatened in Washington by Robert C. Boruchowitz
  
• Improving Public Defense in Washington: A Progress Report by Rafael Gonzales
  
• Effective Public Defense — Benefits to the Bottom Line by Mary Jane Ferguson
  
• Maintaining a Healthy Criminal Justice System by Tom McBride

Columns

• President's Corner: Our Constitutional Commitment to Justice by Ellen Conedera Dial 
  
• Executive's Report:Justice in Jeopardy: Where We Started and Where We Have Yet to Go! by M. Janice Michels