2006 Program Materials Table of Contents

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Tab 1:   Agenda & Registration List

Tab 2:   Presenter Biographies

Tab 3:   Materials on the National Right to Counsel Committee
         Report.

         The Crisis in Indigent Defense- A National Perspective, by Mary
         Sue Backus and Paul Marcus

Tab 4:   Materials on Recent Developments on the Indigent
         Defense Front:

     Tab 4A:       Georgia Presentation: Michael Mears

         Executive Summary, Excerpted from Report of Georgia Supreme
         Court Chief Justice’s Commission on Indigent Defense (December
         2002)

         Resolution Regarding Commission on Indigent Legal Defense,
         State Bar of Georgia (January 2000)

         Text of Georgia Indigent Defense Act (May 2003)
               •   Georgia Indigent Defense Act, 2003 Ga. Laws 32 (codified as amended
                   in sections of Titles 15-17 and 35-36 of GA. CODE ANN.)

         Criminal Defense For the Poor in Georgia: The Past, Present and
         Future
               •   Excerpts of remarks by Michael Mears to Council of Superior Court
                   Judges for the State of Georgia, October 10, 2004



     Tab 4B:       Texas Presentation: James Bethke

          Texas Task Force on Indigent Defense
               •   A Strategic Plan for Improving Texas Indigent Defense Criminal Justice
                   Systems 2005-2010




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Tab 4C:   Montana Presentation: Hon. Karla Gray & E.
          Vincent Warren

    ACLU Press Release Hailing Montana’s Public Defense Bill
    (June 8, 2005)

    Second Amended Complaint from White v. Martz, CDV-2002-133

    Relevant Citations to the Expert Report Used in the ACLU’s
    Litigation in Montana

    Summary of Montana Public Defender Act Bill

Tab 4D:   North Carolina Presentation: John Rubin
    Indigent Defense Services Main Accomplishments Since July 2001

    Additional Information about North Carolina Indigent Defense
    Services from the Internet

Tab 4E:   Massachusetts Presentation: William Leahy
    Op Ed Article: “Stiffing of Legal Aid Undermines Justice” by William
    Leahy (Feb. 18, 2003)

    Report of the Commission to Study the Provision of Counsel to
    Indigent Persons in Massachusetts (April 2005)

    Opinion from Lavallee v. Justices in the Hampden Superior Court,
    442 Mass. 228 (2004)

    An Act Providing Counsel to Indigent Persons (July 29, 2005)

    An Act Relative to Private Attorneys Providing Public Counsel
    Services

    Op Ed Article: “A Good Example of When Government Works” by
    William Leahy (Oct. 31, 2005)


Tab 4F:  North Dakota Presentation: Robert
Spangenberg

    Report from the State Bar Association of North Dakota Indigent
    Defense Task Force


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         North Dakota Act to Establish the Commission on Legal Counsel
         for Indigents
               •   Senate Bill 2027



     Tab 4G:       Additional Indigent Defense Information

         News on Indigent Defense Reform Movements in North Dakota,
         Missouri, and New York by The Spangenberg Group

         Report by The Spangenberg Group (on behalf of ABA SCLAID),
         “Statewide Indigent Defense Systems: 2005”

         Excerpt from The State Commissions Report (Draft) by the
         Spangenberg Group (on behalf of ABA SCLAID)

         The Spangenberg Group Decriminalization Issue Paper

         The Spangenberg Group Funding Indigent Defense- Alternative
         Sources for Revenue Issue Paper


Tab 5:   Case Overload and the Duty of Defenders, Their
         Offices, and Bar Counsel

         Standard 5-5.3, “Workload,” ABA Standards for Criminal Justice:
         Providing Defense Services (3d ed. 1992)

         NLADA American Council of Chief Defenders Ethics Opinion 03-01
         (April 2003)

         Article by James McCauley, “Excessive Workloads Create Ethical
         Issues for Court Appointed Counsel and Public Defenders” (July
         2004)

         Virginia State Bar Committee on Legal Ethics, Opinion 1798, “Are
         Commonwealth’s Attorneys Held to the Same Ethical Requirements
         as Other Attorneys?” (June 2004)

         Letter on behalf of ABA Standing Committee on Legal Aid and
         Indigent Defendants Seeking an Ethics Opinion from the ABA
         Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility




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