Report Cards
Adult Report Card
This report card assesses Louisiana’s compliance with the American Bar Association’s Ten Principles of a Public Defense Delivery System. The Principles constitute the fundamental criteria necessary to design a system that provides effective, efficient, high quality, ethical, conflict-free legal representation for criminal defendants who are unable to afford an attorney.
Juvenile Report Card
The Ten Core Principles for Providing Quality Delinquency Representation Through Indigent Defense Delivery Systems were developed by the American Council of Chief Defenders and the National Juvenile Defender Center, “to provide criteria by which an indigent defense system may fully implement the holding of In Re Gault,” in which the United States Supreme Court extended the right to counsel to juveniles. These Principles provide guidance for policymakers in devising an indigent defense delivery system for children in delinquency proceedings, as well as for those prosecuted in adult court.