Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Overworked??!

I have not really posted much here about what I do for work. I am an Criminal Defense Investigator and work for the Public Defender's Office. Today the
Legislative Auditor came out with a report about the Public Defender System in Minnesota. Among other things they found
...


"Those we interviewed and surveyed agreed that public defenders were, on the whole, excellent criminal defense attorneys,'' the evaluation said. "However, stakeholders also reported that workloads were having a noticeable impact on public defenders' ability to adequately and ethically represent their clients.''



http://kstp.com/news/stories/S1419503.shtml?cat=1

the entire report here..

http://www.auditor.leg.state.mn.us/PED/2010/pubdef.htm

I will have more on this topic later.

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