WASHINGTON, April 22 -- The National Legal Aid and Defender Association issued the following statement: * * * Vice President Walter Mondale was a champion of equal justice. Throughout his career, he was committed to ensuring that everyone had access to counsel regardless of race, color, creed or income. Early in his career, as Attorney General of the State of Minnesota, he helped lead many of the nation's attorneys general in submitting an amicus brief in support of a defendant's right to leg more PR