Tracing the Right to Counsel in the VAWA Reauthorization Act

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Been asked this so here goes. Does the new statute require tribes to guarantee counsel to indigent defendants in special tribal domestic violence prosecutions of non-Indians? Yes, the answer is (as Yoda would say) (and assuming President Obama doesn’t veto). … Continue reading →

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