Joy on Missouri's Public Defender System

Peter A. Joy (Washington University in Saint Louis - School of Law) has posted Rationing Justice by Rationing Lawyers (Washington University Journal of Law and Policy, Vol. 37, No. 205, 2011) on SSRN. Here is the abstract:

This article focuses on the crisis in Missouri's public defender system due to excessive caseloads and how the rationing of lawyers limits access to justice for the accused.