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MCJ Member Links
The Michigan Coalition for Justice (MCJ) is a diverse
group of organizations and individuals committed to the reform of
Michigan’s public defense system to ensure fundamental fairness.
The MCJ recognizes that in the
absence of a working public defense system, the entire criminal justice
system fails, and all of Michigan’s citizens suffer. Innocent people go
to jail, while guilty people remain free to commit other crimes.
Additionally, the failing is unfair to taxpayers, creating massive
inefficiencies that increase court and jail costs.
The MCJ engages in public education, litigation and
advocacy aimed at improving public defense in Michigan. The MCJ believes
that achieving this objective requires the state to establish a public
defense system that complies with the American Bar Association’s Ten
Principles of a Public Defense Delivery System, as well as the Eleven
Principles of a Public Defense Delivery System created by the Michigan
Public Defense Task Force and approved as policy of the Michigan Bar
Association in 2002.
MCJ members
include:
The
American Civil Liberties Union
The American Civil Liberties Union of
Michigan
The Brennan Center Strategic Fund
Cravath, Swaine & Moore
Frank Eaman
The National Association of Criminal Defense
Lawyers
Other
Links
A number of organizations,
both inside and outside Michigan, have been working toward reform for
some time.
Michigan Public Defense Task
Force
Criminal Defense Attorneys of Michigan
American Bar Association
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