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St. Louis County adopts waiting list for public defenders

by Associated Press
| January 10, 2020 9:05 AM

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Getting legal representation will take longer for hundreds of criminal defendants in Missouri’s largest county now that its judicial circuit has instituted a waiting list that supporters say is the only way to reduce the massive caseloads that its overworked public defenders have been handling.

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