Longtime defender making a case for a new generation of lawyers
Tardy Justice No Justice at All a Seattle P-I Op-Ed by Bob Boruchowitz
Bar Presidents Praise Seattle's Defender System
Judge Orders Increase in Compensation for “Predator Commitment” Cases
RDP Staff Organizer KL Shannon Receives Community Service Award
Seattle Times: Big City Lawyer Richard Levidow Enjoyed A Rebirth As Defender
2005 City Council Candidates Survey on Racial Profiling & Housing Results All responses are presented as submitted by the candidates. No editing occurred. Brought to you by over 35 local grassroots, community groups as part of the October 17 Seattle City Candidates Forum on Racial Profiling and Housing.
Judge Grants Partial Summary Judgment in Grant County Systemic Ineffectiveness Lawsuit, Refers to Standards
Seattle Times: Legal-defense cost cutting? Mayor urged not to tinker
Seattle Times Editorial about Seattle Public Defense
The Right to Counsel: Every Accused Person's Right by Defender Director, Robert C. Boruchowitz
How to Deal with the Denial of Counsel in Misdemeanor Cases Post-Shelton by Bob Boruchowitz
ABA Standing Committee on Legal Aid and Indigent Defendants (SCLAID) Resources for Public Defense
Defender Director's Testimony at ABA Gideon Hearing in Seattle, February, 2003
NLADA Seattle Conference Featured on KUOW's The Conversation: Bob Boruchowitz, George Yeannakis, and Joann Wallace discuss public defense in Washington and around the nation.
Defender Study Finds Problems in Juvenile Representation
Limiting Cases of Criminal Injustice
NYU Law Professor Recognizes Defender Association as National Leader. See our resume
The Seattle P-I discusses the Soros Senior Fellowship project: Thousands lack lawyers in crucial court hearings
County Council Recognizes Defenders on Gideon Anniversary
Gideon Undone - The Crisis in Indigent Defense Funding Report on hearings on the crisis in indigent defense funding held in November, 1982. (Includes testimony from Director Bob Boruchowitz. The ABA Committee held a new hearing on this topic on Seattle and plans one in San Francisco in 2003.)
Anniversary of Gideon case spotlights right to court-appointed attorney By Defender Director, Robert C. Boruchowitz
Forum tackles race and drug use
Washington Death Penalty Assistance Center Director Mark Larranaga on KUOW's The Conversation
Seattle Weekly article about Car Recovery Clinic
Director Bob Boruchowitz on KUOW's The Conversation
The Staggering Costs of Killing Gary Ridgway
Commentary: Fair Law Enforcement Requires Honest Data
State Supreme Court takes steps to even scales of justice
Spokane Spokesman Review Editorial: Public defenders protect all our Rights (Free Registration Required)
State bar studies moratorium on death penalty
ABA adopts Ten Principles of a Public Defense Delivery System
Defenders reject Benton County's offer
P-I Reports on Inadequate Capital Defense Funding:
Court offers mentally ill an alternative to jail In Seattle, treatment option is helping to turn lives around USA Today
In Defense of Public Defenders by Myra Sun, former Defender Association attorney
Washington State Praised for ‘Team Child’ Juvenile Program on NPR's All Things Considered
Judge Finds Juror Misconduct in Death Penalty Trial
Letter to Seattle Weekly from Defender Director on WTO Justice, January, 2000
Letter from NACDL President: Substantial Participation of the Private Bar in Ensuring Sixth Amendment Guarantee of Right to Counsel
