Hurrell-Harring Settlement

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June 25, 2019 Nora Christenson: Hurrell-Harring Providers Meet ILS Caseload Standards Director Leahy's Transmittal Memo October 30, 2017 Hurrell-Harring Settlement Implementation: 2017 Update Report [pdf]
Onondaga County Ontario County Schuyler County Suffolk County Washington County
October 30, 2021 ILS Releases Evaluating the Effectiveness of Caseload Standards in the Hurrell-Harring Settlement Counties February 10, 2020 ILS Releases Implementing Caseload Relief and Quality Initiatives in Assigned Counsel Programs
Caseload Relief Evaluating the Effectiveness of Caseload Standards in the Hurrell-Harring Settlement Counties, October 2021 Implementing Caseload Relief and Quality Initiatives in Assigned Counsel Programs, February 10, 2020
The Settlement, approved in March 2015, requires New York State and the five defendant counties to improve the delivery of public defense services in four key areas:
In 2007, just one year after the release of The Final Report of Chief Judge Kaye’s Commission on the Future of Indigent Defense Services (Kaye Commission Report), the New York Civil Liberties Union sued New York State alleging that the State had systematically and structurally denied meaningful and effective representation to defendants entitled to publicly funded representation in violation of their Sixth Amendment right to counsel.