Flap Grows Over Missouri's Defender Caseload Study
Missouri Lawyers Media › November 30, 2009
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At the urging of a new Missouri Bar governor, the Missouri State Public Defender System may try to recoup some of the $70,000 the system raised to pay for a comprehensive study of its caseload problems.
The governor, Marie Kenyon, criticized the report as a useless collection of anecdotes that portrayed public defenders as whining attorneys who hate their jobs.See the full content of this document
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Flap Grows Over Missouri's Defender Caseload Study
The state prosecutors' association also slammed the report as a failure, but for a different reason.
The October study by the Spangenberg Group hypes a "constitutional crisis" that doesn't exist, said Dwight Scroggins, president of the Missouri Association of Prosecuting Attorneys.As legislators prepare to work on analread...See the full content of this document
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