NCJ Number
305334
Journal
Review of Economics and Statistics Volume: 104 Issue: 4 Dated: July 2022 Pages: 819-827
Date Published
July 2022
Length
9 pages
Annotation
Since most criminal defendants cannot afford to hire an attorney to provide constitutionally mandated legal services, states commonly use either private court-appointed attorneys or a public defender organization; this paper investigates the relative efficacy of these two modes of indigent defense by comparing outcomes of codefendants assigned to different types of attorneys within the same case.
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Abstract
Using data from San Francisco, I show that in multiple defendant cases, public defender assignment is plausibly as good as random. I find that public defenders reduce the probability of any prison sentence by 22% and the length of prison sentences by 10%. (Publisher abstract provided)
Date Published: July 1, 2022
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