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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 ...
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?
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Amid the state’s public defense crisis, lawmakers last month approved over $2 million for defense attorneys to take more ...
A bill that gives attorneys a pay bump is heading to Gov. Healey to sign into law. On Thursday, the Massachusetts House of ...
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Public safety at risk: MA cases dismissed over pay disputeA local lawmaker is sounding the alarm as criminal cases are being dismissed across the commonwealth due to a pay dispute ...
BOSTON — Defendants are being released in Massachusetts in the wake of a prolonged dispute over pay for the state's public defenders, and one of those set free was charged with a serious crime.
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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