From the story: That same month, Thomas tore into another venerated precedent: Gideon v. Wainwright, which requires states to provide public defenders to indigent defendants under the Sixth Amendment. “History… https://www.instagram.com/p/BzVdlxAg7TP/?igshid=11kdlrh1qwns0 …
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4. The office was constantly underfunded, & overburdened, as Martinez signed warrant after warrant, to purposefully put the office on the verge of collapse. The lawyers ran round-the-clock, mostly in ill health. The clients, facing death, well...they mostly died. Often, horribly.
Agreed. That part we know. Every public defender office we know of is intentionally underfunded, or understaffed
