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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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