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Justice in Jeopardy

By Scoplaw

ABC news is reporting on our local crisis, as well as the financial problems facing public defenders in Kentucky and Minnesota.Defense attorneys tend to get a bad rap from the angry public.  Public defenders, at least in my own experience, tend to get somewhat more respect, at least so far as comments on our personal integrity goes.  (Although I always field questions about "how can I do that for a living?")  Oddly enough, stick a traffic ticket in someone's hand and they can't wait to treat a public defender like the local librarian - "Can you help me with this or that/What can I do/What should I say to the judge?"  Can you imagine, dear reader, if instead of a traffic ticket's fines you were looking at a portion of your life in jail, plus all the attendant costs that entails?The really odd thing about the situation, odd because no one is really talking about it, is that we're looking at a failure of leadership in this country...continue to full post

Full post as published by Scoplaw on June 15, 2008 (boomark / email).