Unstable, Inadequate Funding Causes Public Defender Shortage, Putting Those Who Are Arrested and Can’t Afford an Attorney in Legal Limbo
NEW ORLEANS —(ENEWSPF)–January 15, 2016. The American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of Louisiana filed a class-action lawsuit yesterday evening against the Orleans Parish public defenders’ office and the Louisiana Public Defender Board over the office’s placement of new clients on a waiting list for representation due to a shortage of public defenders. Like others who have…
