Missouri Bar weighs in on workload crisis as the legislature debates privatizing much of the public defender’s work

Missouri Bar weighs in on workload crisis as the legislature debates privatizing much of the public defender’s work

Pleading the Sixth: A new bill introduced in the Missouri legislature would resolve the public defender caseload crisis by restricting the state public defender to representation in only serious felony cases while privatizing services for all other case-types through low-bid contracts.  The Missouri Bar’s, Criminal Justice Task Force also…