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- ↑ Robin Steinberg, "Heeding Gideon's Call in the Twenty-First Century: Holistic Defense and the New Public Defense Paradigm", 70 Washington & Lee Law Review 961-984 (2013).
- ↑ Winnie Hu, "In South Bronx, Legal Aid and Shoulders to Lean On", The New York Times, 27 February 2013.
- ↑ "Justine Olderman Stepping Down as Executive Director at The Bronx Defenders - The Bronx Defenders". 2023-08-04. Retrieved 2024-01-22.
- ↑ Wright, Eisha N. (27 March 2015). Report on the Fiscal 2016 Preliminary Budget: Courts and Legal Aid Society / Indigent Defense Services (PDF). New York City Council Finance Division.
- ↑ "The Bronx Defenders Wins the National Legal Aid and Defender Association's 2013 Clara Shortridge Foltz Award". The Bronx Defenders. Retrieved 2019-05-09.