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The public defender crisis isn't just a Massachusetts problem
From Oregon to Massachusetts, states are struggling to maintain a roster of attorneys to take on public defense cases. The number of cases is rising while more attorneys are balking at what they say are low rates of pay to do the work.
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Massachusetts lawmakers passed a funding bill that includes a pay raise for public defenders as part of an effort to end a ...
So-called "bar advocates" — private attorneys who take on the criminal cases of indigent defendants — have stopped accepting ...
A bill that gives attorneys a pay bump is heading to Gov. Healey to sign into law. On Thursday, the Massachusetts House of ...
Seeking higher pay, lawyers for indigent defendants won’t take new clients. As a result, judges must dismiss cases against ...
As the courts are ground to a halt with a work stoppage, is it time for the state to change its public defender system?
A group of advocates gathered at the State House Thursday to protest the deal, which they say, was constructed in a back room ...
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More than 120 defendants in Massachusetts have had their charges — ranging from assault to drug possession — dropped after ...
Healey, a Democrat, did not mention Harvard by name in a statement announcing the plan but made a reference to the climate ...
Court-appointed attorneys say an agreement reached with Massachusetts lawmakers is a "critical starting point" toward ending ...
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