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Balancing budgets on the backs of the indigent accused.

By ti

Everybody in the public defender world is talking about the NYT article from last week about PD offices refusing cases because they don’t have enough resources to adequately handle all the clients being assigned to them. It’s sad, and something rather difficult to understand. What are we saying to these people? “I’m sorry, you do have rights guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution but we just can’t afford to honor those rights at the moment. Maybe if you find yourself penniless and accused of a crime in a few years things will be better.” I’m sure Scoplaw might have much more to say about this if he weren’t in the middle of it. I can’t fault any of these offices around the country who are refusing cases for lack of resources, but what I don’t understand are judges who are ruling that this is ok...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Imbroglio on November 13, 2008 (boomark / email).