ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
T he authors wish to thank the Board of Directors of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers and the Board of Trustees for the Foundation for Criminal Justice for their support of this project. The research and drafting of this report was a collaborative effort between NACDL and Professor Robert C. Boruchowitz of the Seattle University School of Law. Professor Boruchowitz served as lead researcher on the project. In addition to teaching in the Youth Advocacy Clinic, Professor Boruchowitz is the Director of The Defender Initia- tive, a project that works to document problems in public defense systems and to ad- vance efforts to improve public defense representation. The authors express their thanks to all those who assisted in the research of this report. E. Gerry Morris, Suzanne Spencer, Angela Ramage-Wolf, Shelley Stark, and Mark Rankin assisted with site visits in Texas, Illinois, Pennsylvania, and Florida. Lauren McLane and Mary Lyons, students at Seattle University School of Law, provided re- search and site visit assistance to Professor Boruchowitz. William Wolf provided guid- ance and support to NACDL staff. We also thank Stephen McConnell, Jeffrey Daman and their colleagues at Dechert LLP, Marvin Schechter, and Vic Walczak of the ACLU of Pennsylvania, all of whom con- ducted early site visit work in Pennsylvania that, in large part, led to the development of this project. We thank the Open Society Institute for supporting of the project, including hosting the conference on misdemeanor courts in New York City. We also thank the Ford Founda- tion for its support. We thank the Dean of Seattle University School of Law, Kellye Testy, as well as the Director of Continuing Legal Education, Jim Rosenfeld, and his col- leagues, Julie McClure and Rebecca Parker, who graciously hosted the conference in Seattle. We also express our appreciation to Seattle University Professor Deirdre Bowen, who reviewed our survey and recommended changes, Robert Spangenberg and David New- house of The Spangenberg Group, who offered information and advice, as well as par- ticipated in the conferences, and David Carroll of the National Legal Aid & Defender Association, with whom the authors consulted on a number of aspects of this report. Finally, the authors offer their appreciation to the participants at the site visit locations across the country for their cooperation and candidness, as well as the numerous de- fenders who responded to our survey and follow-up questions.
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