{"id":941,"date":"2010-08-27T14:21:32","date_gmt":"2010-08-27T20:21:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cookcountypd.org\/blog\/?p=941"},"modified":"2010-08-27T14:23:39","modified_gmt":"2010-08-27T20:23:39","slug":"empirical-study-proves-what-weve-known-along-pds-do-it-just-as-well-as-private-attorneys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/2010\/08\/27\/empirical-study-proves-what-weve-known-along-pds-do-it-just-as-well-as-private-attorneys\/","title":{"rendered":"Empirical Study Proves What We&#8217;ve Known Along: PDs Do it Just as Well As Private Attorneys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cookcountypd.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/26th-st-photo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-942\" title=\"26th st photo\" src=\"http:\/\/cookcountypd.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/26th-st-photo-150x113.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"113\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We all knew that assistant public defenders in Cook County get results that are just as good as the privates, but now a study, released by Richard Hartley, a researcher at University of Texas &#8211; San Antonio, has the data to back it up.\u00a0 Hartley and his team studied 2850 cases in Cook County and found that\u00a0the results\u00a0public defenders got were just as good as the ones the private attorneys got.\u00a0 The study also showed that of the 2850 cases they looked at, 91% were handled by public defenders.\u00a0 For more stories on the study, follow these links:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.miller-mccune.com\/legal-affairs\/public-defenders-as-effective-as-private-attorneys-21292\/\">http:\/\/www.miller-mccune.com\/legal-affairs\/public-defenders-as-effective-as-private-attorneys-21292\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abajournal.com\/weekly\/article\/public_defenders_are_just_as_effective_as_private_counsel_study_says\">http:\/\/www.abajournal.com\/weekly\/article\/public_defenders_are_just_as_effective_as_private_counsel_study_says<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now tell us something we don&#8217;t know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We all knew that assistant public defenders in Cook County get results that are just as good as the privates, but now a study, released by Richard Hartley, a researcher at University of Texas &#8211; San Antonio, has the data to back it up.\u00a0 Hartley and his team studied 2850 cases in Cook County and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}