Readers respond: Fair pay, caseloads for public defenders
However, overloading attorneys by forced appointments won’t solve the crisis – it creates new constitutional failures and ...
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Lawmakers consider bills to address ongoing Oregon public defender crisis
legislative director of the Oregon Criminal Defense Lawyers Association, said at a Wednesday public hearing. "We need all hands on deck." Here are some of the bills lawmakers are considering to ...
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Lawmakers consider bills to address ongoing Oregon public defender crisis
"Oregon has too few lawyers in all practice areas," Mae Lee Browning, legislative director of the Oregon Criminal Defense Lawyers Association, said at a Wednesday public hearing. "We need all hands on ...