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Re "The Right to Counsel: Badly Battered at 50," by Lincoln Caplan (Sunday Observer, March 10):
Sadly, the article paints an accurate picture of how far our country has fallen in fulfilling the promise of quality legal counsel for all. I have seen firsthand the state-by-state discrepancies described, from my early days as a public defender in Washington — a model system — to my work across the South trying to rebuild crumbling public defender offices.
Expectations for what poor people deserve have fallen so low that people in the system have come to accept these low standards. They have lost sight of justice and the role they are supposed to play in promoting it.
While limiting caseloads is certainly one part of the solution, if we expect to change America's public defense system, we must change its culture. We must teach public defenders to resist the low expectations of a broken system. And we must prepare the next generation of public defenders to improve those systems.
JONATHAN RAPPING
Atlanta, March 11, 2013
The writer is founder and president of Gideon's Promise, which trains lawyers to provide defense representation to people unable to afford a lawyer.
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