Defender Association of Philadelphia is a non-profit corporation, based in
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, often called Philly, is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the sixth-largest city in the U.S., the second-largest city in both the Northeast megalopolis and Mid-Atlantic regions after New York City. Sinc ...
, that provides defense on a court-appointed basis for criminal and delinquency cases in which the defendants and respondents are indigent adults and juveniles.
History
In 1990, the association appointed the first woman as chief in 56 years.
In October 2001, Firm changed its address. The site for
Comcast Center (Philadelphia) at 17th Street at
John F. Kennedy Boulevard, a site occupied by a building that housed the Defender Association of Philadelphia and a parking lot.
In 2015, Keir Bradford-Grey become head of the Association.
Notable people
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C. Darnell Jones II
Cardozie Darnell Jones II (born November 23, 1949) is a Senior status, Senior United States federal judge, United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
Education and career
Born in Cl ...
, federal judge
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Abbe Smith
Abbe Lyn Smith (born September 22, 1956) is an American criminal defense attorney and professor of law at Georgetown University Law Center. Smith is Director of the Criminal Defense and Prisoner Advocacy Clinic and Co-Director of the E. Barrett ...
, law professor
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Gregory M. Sleet, federal judge
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Luis Felipe Restrepo
Luis Felipe Restrepo (born 1959), known commonly as L. Felipe Restrepo, is a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and former United States district judge of the United States District Court for th ...
, federal judge
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Benjamin H. Read, politician
Scholarship
, Client Service in a Defender Organization: The Philadelphia Experience, egal Aid to Indigent Criminal Defendants in Philadelphia and New Jersey
References
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Criminal defense organizations
Legal aid in the United States
Organizations established in 1934
Government of Philadelphia
Crime in Philadelphia
Organizations based in Philadelphia