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Duncan et al. v. State of Michigan (Amicus Brief)

The Brennan Center, along with the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, and the Constitution Project, filed an amicus brief in a case before the Michigan Supreme Court case that seeks to address the constitutional insufficiency of the state's indigent defense system.

– 08/11/10

Hurrell-Harring, et al. v. State of New York (Amicus Brief)

The Brennan Center co-authored an amicus brief signed by 62 former prosecutors in support of a suit that challenges New York's indigent defense system.

– 05/06/10

Montejo v. Louisiana (Amicus Brief)

This case tests the ambit of the protection afforded by the Sixth Amendment of right to counsel.

– 04/14/09