Washington State Bar News

February 2007

Articles

• Public Defense: Guaranteeing Justice for All by Chief Justice Gerry L. Alexander
• Making Gideon Real: Washington Counties and the Duty to Provide Effective Assistance of Counsel by David F. Taylor, Don Scaramastra, and Beth Colgan
• The State's Role in Defining the Constitutional Right to Counsel in Gideon by Rob McKenna
• Counsel for Poor Criminal Defendants: An American Tradition by Joanne Moore
• Right to Counsel Remains Threatened in Washington by Robert C. Boruchowitz
• Improving Public Defense in Washington: A Progress Report by Rafael Gonzales
• Effective Public Defense — Benefits to the Bottom Line by Mary Jane Ferguson
• Maintaining a Healthy Criminal Justice System by Tom McBride

Columns

• President's Corner: Our Constitutional Commitment to Justice by Ellen Conedera Dial 
• Executive's Report: Justice in Jeopardy: Where We Started and Where We Have Yet to Go! by M. Janice Michels
• Editor's Page: Ah, the sentiment of it all by Lindsay Thompson

Departments

• Letters to the Editor
• Ethics and the Law
• Section and Committee Reports for 2006 
• FYI
• Disciplinary Notices
• Usury Rate:
  The average coupon equivalent yield from the first auction of 26-week treasury bills in January 2007 was 5.094 percent. Therefore, the maximum allowable interest rate for January is 12 percent. Compilations of the average coupon equivalent yields from past auctions of 26-week treasury bills and past maximum interest rates for June 1988 to June 1999 appear on page 53 of the June 1999 Bar News. Information from January 1987 to date is available online.  

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