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Indeed, often in the US you could do better without the public defender. Many public defenders push their clients into plea deals despite innocence to save time
by satya71 7y ago
Indeed, often in the US you could do better without the public defender. Many public defenders push their clients into plea deals despite innocence to save time.
- ceejayoz 7y agoTo be clear, that's not the defenders' fault. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/01/31/us/public-defender-case-loads.html https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/01/31/us/public-def... > Now, reformers are using data in a novel attempt to create such a standard. The studies they have produced so far, in four states, say that public defenders have two to almost five times as many cases as they should. > The bottom line: Mr. Talaska would have needed almost 10,000 hours, or five work-years, to handle the 194 active felony cases he had as of that April day, not to mention the dozens more he would be assigned that year. (The analysis did not include one death-penalty case on his roster, the most time-consuming type of case.)