The Necessity for a Public Defender

Crime and Sociology.

“…The Chicago Committee, McCord, Peyton, Whitman, Olson, Vaughan, Abbott, Lisle (34,32,37,49,36,47,1,28) and others continually advocate the extension of the use of laboratories in connection with the court. The Chicago Committee, Adelman, Slopter, Ferrari, Goldman, and Myers (34,2,41,9,19,35) all urge the necessity of a public defender in order primarily that the indigent accused may have justice. They claim that in this way can be abolished the Grand Jury, the barbarous Third Degree, and legal technicalities of various sorts.…”