“…Nothing more than the illusion of a lawyer.” one of the better quotes from the NY times article. Missouri has a state PD system like we do here in Florida. Here’s a scary quote:
“Is someone in prison who might have been acquitted if we had had more resources?” Rod Hackathorn, the public defender for a three-county district that includes Ozark, asked the other day. “You don’t know. I’m sure that it’s happened, and I don’t know who it has happened to. And that’s the scariest part of this all.”
Grey Tesh is a board certified criminal trial lawyer in West Palm Beach, Florida and is Past-President of the Palm Beach association of criminal defense lawyers and has tried over 100 jury and non-jury trials from DUI to 1st Degree Murder. www.aaacriminaldefense.com