Defendants in Comal County, Texas, will get vouchers to pay qualified lawyers of their choice, the New York Times reports. The county calls the pilot program “client choice,” while the Times offers another name:  Gideon vouchers.

James Bethke, executive director of the Texas Indigent Defense Commission, told the New York Times he got the idea from an article by law professors Stephen Schulhofer of New York University and David Friedman of Santa Clara University.