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Blackburn: 'We have created a permanent class of underperformers in criminal defense cases'

The State Bar's Standing Committee on Legal Services to Poor in Criminal Matters has just released a new set of Performance Guidelines for Non-Capital Criminal Defense Representation (pdf), which are particularly focused on heretofore largely absent standards for indigent defense. My boss from the Innocence Project of Texas, Jeff Blackburn, chaired the committee that developed these new performance standards, and yesterday I asked him about them as a test-run for Grits' first-ever podcast (around 9 minutes). As you can tell from the quote in the title of this post, Jeff doesn't mince words when criticizing criminal defense lawyers who don't meet these standards, which he says "any jackwagon lawyer ought to be doing": I've been meaning for a while now to develop podcasting capacity, and thanks to Grits contributors for financing the equipment, software, etc...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on March 01, 2011 (boomark / email).