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.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 05 2016, @11:28PM
translation:
"The point is I was totally wrong, but I'm really angry and indignant and looking for convenient scapegoats to blame! THEM! It was all those guy's fault."
(Score: 2) by Spook brat on Saturday August 06 2016, @08:17PM
Cut Thexalon some slack, it was isostatic who thought HES was the place to claw war profits back from.
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