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January 24, 2022

Report: Ore. needs public defenders

SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Oregon has only roughly one-third of the public defense attorneys it needs to provide reasonably effective assistance to low-income defendants, a committee of the American Bar Association and a major accounting firm said in a report released Friday.

“We all need to recognize that the gap between what we are currently providing and what this report reflects that we should be providing is vast,” said Steve Singer, executive director of the Oregon Office of Public Defense Services.


 
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