state and national constitutions and laws have laid great
emphasis on procedural and substantive safeguards
designed to assure fair trials before impartial tribunals in
which every defendant stands equal before the law. This
noble ideal cannot be realized if the poor man charged
with crime has to face his accusers without a lawyer to
assist him.” 372 U.S. 335, 344 (1963).
401. Lassiter v. Dep’t of Soc. Servs., 452 U.S. 18 (1981).
402. Emily S. Taylor Poppe & Jeffrey J. Rachlinski, Do
Lawyers Matter? The Effect of Legal Representation in Civil
Disputes, 43 Pepperdine L. R. 881 (2016).
403. Russell Engler, Connecting Self-Representation to Civil
Gideon: What Existing Data Reveal About When Counsel is
Most Needed, 37 Fordham Urb. L.J. 37, 39 (2010) (citing
Rebecca Sandefur, Elements of Expertise: Lawyers’ Impact
on Civil Trial and Hearing Outcomes 24 (Mar. 26, 2008)
(unpublished manuscript)).
404. IOLA and the Future of Legal Services in N.Y. State:
Hearing before the N.Y. State Senate (Dec. 9, 2009)
(written testimony of David S. Udell, Brennan Center for
Justice) (citing Rebecca L. Sandefur, Elements of Expertise:
Lawyers’ Impact on Civil Trial and Hearing Outcomes 3
(Mar. 26, 2008) (unpublished manuscript), https://www.
brennancenter.org/analysis/testimony-ny-senate-hearing-future-civil-legal-services.
405. CJA § 210.20.20, https://www.uscourts.gov/
rules-policies/judiciary-policies/cja-guidelines/
chapter-2-ss-210-representation-under-cja.
406. See e.g., U.S. v. Becker, 2:18-cv-02049 (Doc. 23), Reply
in support of motion for order appointing Federal Public
Defender (Dec. 3, 2018) (citing Chaunt v. U.S., 364 U.S.
350, 353 (1960) (stating that citizenship is “so important to
the liberty” of a citizen); Klaprott v. U.S., 335 U.S. 601, 616
(1949) (noting that citizenship is “a right not less
precious…than liberty”)).
407. Gideon v. Wainwright, 372 U.S. 335, 344 (1963).
408. Interview notes on file with the Open Society Justice
Initiative.
409. Legal Services Corporation, National Coalition for a
Civil Right to Counsel, U.S. Rank on Access to Civil Justice in
Rule of Law Index Drops to 99th out of 126 Countries (Mar.
10, 2019), http://civilrighttocounsel.org/major_developments/217.
410. Comm. on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial
Discrimination, 85th Sess., Aug 11-29, 2014, Concluding
Observations on the combined seventh to ninth periodic
reports of the United States of America, at paras. 18, 23,
U.N. Doc. CERD/C/USA/CO/7-9 (Aug. 29, 2014); Human
Rights Comm. 110th Sess., Mar. 10-28, 2014, Concluding
Observations of the Human Rights Committee: United States
of America, at paras. 15, 16, U.N. Doc. CCPR/C/USA/CO/4
(Apr. 23, 2014).
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411. Legal Services Corporation, Legal Services Corporation Optimistic About Bipartisan Support in Congress Despite
White House Proposal to Defund (Mar. 18, 2019), https://
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412. See Coffin v. United States 156 U.S. 432 (1895) (“The
principle that there is a presumption of innocence in favor
of the accused is the undoubted law, axiomatic and
elementary…”); Estelle v. Williams, 425 U.S. 501, 503 (1976)
(stating the presumption of innocence is a “basic
component of a fair trial.”).
413. See e.g., Article 11(1) of the UDHR and Article 14(2) of
the CCPR.
414. In one case, detainment could not be determined as
the file was sealed both online and in-person.
415. See Mary T. Phillips, Pretrial Detention and Case
Outcomes, Part 1: Nonfelony Cases, and Pretrial Detention
and Case Outcomes, Part 2: Felony Cases Final Report, New
York Criminal Justice Agency, Inc. (2007).
416. Charles Doyle, Statute of Limitation in Federal
Criminal Cases: An Overview, Cong. Res. Serv. Rep. RL3125
(Nov. 14, 2017), https://fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/RL31253.pdf.
417. Kokesh v. Sec. & Exch. Comm’n, 137 S. Ct. 1635,
1641-42 (2017) (citing Gabelli v. SEC, 568 U.S. 442, 449
(2013).
418. See 18 U.S.C. § 3291 (“No person shall be prosecuted,
tried, or punished for violation of any provision of sections
1423 to 1428, inclusive, of chapter 69 and sections 1541 to
1544, inclusive, of chapter 75 of title 18 of the United States
Code, or for conspiracy to violate any of such sections,
unless the indictment is found or the information is
instituted within ten years after the commission of the
offense.”).
419. United States v. Martinez, 1:18-cr-00216, Motion to
Dismiss Indictment and Continue Evidentiary Hearing, 1-2
(June 14, 2018).
420. See, e.g., John N. Pomeroy, A Treatise on Equity
Jurisprudence §§ 5( 419-418th ed.1941).
421. Doyle, supra note 416.
422. An exception is “major art theft” (20 years).
423. Doyle, supra note 416.
424. Anthony D. Bianco, Paul Bullis & Troy Liggett, Civil
Denaturalization: Safeguarding the Integrity of U.S. Citizenship,
in 65 U.S. Attorneys’ Bulletin (July 2017), at 9, https://www.
justice.gov/usao/page/file/984701/download.
425. DHS-OIG, Potentially ineligible individuals have been
granted U.S. citizenship because of incomplete fingerprint records
(Sept.8, 2016), OIG-16-130, 1, https://www.oig.dhs.gov/
assets/Mgmt/2016/OIG-16-130-Sep16.pdf.
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