George Schneider Featured in Article Commemorating 40th Anniversary of the Public Defender's Office in Newark
February 7, 2008
The Sunday, December 23, 2007 issue of The Star Ledger, featured a nostalgic article recognizing Schneider as one of the five founding members of the Public Defender's Office in Newark. Celebrating the anniversary, four of the five founders gathered to reminisce about the roles they played in setting up the Public Defender's Office in Newark after a 1963 U.S. Supreme Court decision, Gideon vs. Wainwright, found that indigent defendants were entitled to a sound defense. And the rest is history