The March 2004 edi­tion of The Spangenberg Report includes valu­able infor­ma­tion on crim­i­nal jus­tice reforms from around the coun­try, includ­ing death penal­ty devel­op­ments. An exam­i­na­tion of Georgia’s new Public Defender Standards Council and its efforts to over­haul indi­gent defense ser­vices in the state, results from a Spangenberg Group study of indi­gent defense in Virginia, the find­ings of a death penal­ty cost review in Kansas, and addi­tion­al state updates from Illinois, Texas, Minnesota, and Massachusetts are among the items high­light­ed in the report. A sum­ma­tion of Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy’s remarks dur­ing the American Bar Association’s annu­al meet­ing in San Francisco and a dis­cus­sion of the Supreme Court’s deci­sion to review the con­sti­tu­tion­al­i­ty of the juve­nile death penal­ty are also pro­vid­ed. The Spangenberg Report is pub­lished by The Spangenberg Group, a nation­al­ly rec­og­nized research and con­sult­ing firm spe­cial­iz­ing in improv­ing jus­tice pro­grams. (The Spangenberg Report, March 2004) See Resources.

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