Justice Center
Recent
"Pro Bono Programs in Alaska" (2010).
"Unmet Legal Needs in the U.S. and Alaska" by Barbara Armstrong (2010).
"Unmet Legal Needs in the U.S. and Alaska: Web Supplement" (2010).
Alaska Justice Forum articles
"Access to Legal Services for Alaskans with Low Incomes" (2002).
"Alaska Legal Services Service Learning Project" by Pamela R. Kelley (2001).
"Appointment of Public Attorney" (2004).
"Criminal Defense in Rural Alaska" by Rachel King (1998).
"The Felony Case Process in Alaska: The Judicial Council Analysis" by Antonia Moras (2004).
"Indigent Criminal Defense: A National Perspective (A BJS Report)" by Bureau of Justice Statistics (1996).
"Indigent Criminal Defense: The National Picture" (2002). Includes Alaska data.
"Indigent Legal Services in Alaska" (1996).
"Pro Bono Programs in Alaska" (2010).
"Tort Reform and Access to the Courts" by Lisa Rieger (1996).
"Unmet Legal Needs in the U.S. and Alaska" by Barbara Armstrong (2010).
"Unmet Legal Needs in the U.S. and Alaska: Web Supplement" (2010).
State budget information
Including data on Alaska Public Defender Agency and Office of Public Advocacy budgets.
"Alaska Justice System Expenditures, 1984-2001" (2004).
"Justice System Operating Expenditures" (2009).
Alaska
Indigent criminal defense
State of Alaska
- Public Defender Agency. Alaska Department of Administration. The Public Defender Agency provides constitutionally mandated legal representation to indigent clients in criminal, juvenile delinquency, Child in Need of Aid, and (psychiatric) civil commitment cases; petitions to revoke probation; appeals in criminal, juvenile delinquency, and Child In Need of Aid cases; post-conviction relief applications; and parole hearings.
- Office of Public Advocacy (OPA). Alaska Department of Administration. OPA is statutorily mandated to accept court appointments in when the Public Defender Agency has a conflict in adult criminal cases, juvenile delinquency cases, Child in Need of Aid, and (psychiatric) civil commitment cases.
Civil legal assistance
- Alaska Legal Services Corporation (ALSC). A private, non-profit corporation providing free civil legal services to low income Alaskans.
- Partners in Justice. Fundraising site for ALSC.
- Alaska Native Justice Center (ANJC) "Circle of Services." Assistance for Alaska Native and non-Nativevictims of domestic violence and sexual assault.
- Disability Law Center of Alaska (DLC). Llegal representation and other advocacy services to all people with disabilities (no financial eligibility requirements).
Pro bono legal assistance
- Alaska Network on Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault (ANDVSA) Legal Advocacy Project (LAP)
- Alaska Pro Bono Program, Inc. (APBP)
- Volunteer Attorney Support Program. Alaska Legal Services Corporation.
- Alaska Immigration Justice Project (AIJP) — Pro Bono Asylum Project
Pro se (self-represented) litigants
- Family Law Self-Help Center (FLSHC)— Alaska Court System. Free statewide service for persons representing themselves in domestic relations cases; does not represent clients.
Publications
Alaska Judicial Council
Alaska Felony Process: 1999 (2004). See also the Executive Summary.
Report of the Alaska Supreme Court Advisory Committee on Fairness and Access (1997).
The Alaska Public Defender Agency in Perspective (1974).
Alaska Division of Legislative Audit
A Special Report on the Department of Administration, Alaska Public Defender Agency and Office of Public Advocacy: Eligibility Issues and Other Program Aspects. Alaska Division of Legislative Audit, May 22, 1995. Audit Control Number 02-4507-95.
A Special Report on the Department of Administration, Public Defender Agency, Case Management Time Study and Performance Review. Alaska Division of Legislative Audit, May 15, 1998. Audit Control Number 02-1430-00.
National
Civil legal assistance
- Legal Services Corporation (LSC)
- National Coalition for a Civil Right to Counsel—Civil Gideon Project
Pro se (self-represented) litigants
Indigent criminal defense
- National Legal Aid and Defender Association (NLADA). Represents legal aid and defender programs, as well as individual advocates, in the equal justice community.
- American Bar Association Standing Committee on Legal Aid and Indigent Defendants
- National Symposium on Indigent Defense: Looking Back, Looking Forward, 2000–2010. U.S. Department of Justice. Held February 18–19, 2010 in Washington, DC. Includes symposium materials.
Facts & statistics on indigent criminal defense
- Bureau of Justice Statistics: Indigent Defense Statistics. Summary findings, Bureau of Justice Statistics reports, and related sites on right to counsel, indigent defense, and indigent criminal defendants.
- "State-Funded Indigent Defense Services, 1999" by Carol J. DeFrances. Bureau of Justice Statistics Special Report, September 2001, NCJ-188464. Presents data on the 21 states, including Alaska, where state government provides virtually all of the funding for indigent defense services.
- Bureau of Justice Statistics: State and local public defender offices
- National Survey of Indigent Defense Systems
- Census of Public Defender Offices (CPDO)
U.S. Supreme Court decisions
These cases had a crucial impact on the rights to legal defense of indigent criminal defendants.
Gideon v. Wainwright (372 U.S. 335 [1963]). Established the right to counsel of defendants charged with felonies, including state crimes.
Argersinger v. Hamlin (407 U.S. 25 [1972]). Extended an indigent's right to counsel to all criminal prosecutions, felony or misdemeanor, which carry a sentence of imprisonment.
