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Missouri Governor Fails to Fund Public Defender's Office so They Compel him to Work Cases

posted by janrinok on Friday August 05 2016, @06:28AM   Printer-friendly
from the revenge-is-sweet dept.

martyb writes:

Imagine you are responsible for providing legal representation for indigent people in your state (the public defender's office). Seven years ago, a request for additional funding to meet increased case load was vetoed. Your budget was cut in 2015 and now the governor's office is recommending further cuts. Making things worse is the fact that the number of cases has increased 12%. What would you do?

The Director of the Missouri Public Defender System came up with a novel approach to help meet the increased caseload burden and sent a letter to the Governor (PDF) compelling him to work cases.

Additional reporting here, here, and here.

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  • (Score: 2) by mendax on Friday August 05 2016, @08:39PM

    by mendax (2840) on Friday August 05 2016, @08:39PM (#384614)

    Now that is an interesting question. There are "jailhouse lawyers", and believe it or not successful appeals get started in that way. It's not an ideal solution obviously. My guess is that if this was such a case, the ACLU would be interested in pursuing these matters.

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