Oregon Counties Struggle to Provide Public Defenders, Resulting in Felony Cases Being Dismissed

Oregon’s chief justice this week sounded yet another alarm on the state’s deepening public defense crisis that has imperiled the prosecutions of people accused of serious crimes and each day strands more defendants without lawyers.

In a letter to legislative leaders and Gov. Kate Brown, Supreme Court Chief Justice Martha Walters said the state’s inability to provide defense lawyers has “a real impact on defendants who have a constitutional right to counsel, on courts’ ability to resolve cases, on the safety of our communities.”

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