| The state needs to hire more public defenders and rely less on private attorneys to handle criminal cases, prosecutors argue, while public defenders say the real problem is the state’s sentencing laws that needlessly add to caseloads and bog down an already overburdened system.
Prosecutors and public defenders laid out their arguments in a forum Monday afternoon at the Rappaport Center for Law and Public Service at Suffolk University Law School. The two sides have engaged in a months-long debate over how the state pays to prosecute crimes and represent indigent defendants. |
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