public defender crisis
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The New Orleans public defender’s office, responsible for representing more than 20,000 indigent defendants annually with just 52 attorneys, has reached a breaking point. The office’s chief public defender, Derwyn Bunton, has taken the extraordinary step of refusing to take on new felony cases, arguing that the system is so broken it has become “just…
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Maine’s ongoing struggle to provide adequate legal representation for indigent residents has faced another setback as a proposed settlement to improve the state’s public defender system was rejected by a judge. In a recent ruling, Justice Michaela Murphy declined to approve a second proposed settlement aimed at addressing the deficiencies in Maine’s system for providing…
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