Overworked And Underfunded, Mo. Public Defender Office Assigns Case — To The Governor

The public defenders office in Missouri says it's been overloaded for years: too many cases, too few attorneys, too little funding. But Gov. Jay Nixon, who was previously the state's attorney general, has vetoed potential caseload caps and repeatedly blocked funding. The director of the public defender system is frustrated — so frustrated he's implementing a state provision allowing him to draft any lawyer in Missouri to take over a case. And he has one lawyer in mind: Jay Nixon.
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