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New Mexico spends tens of millions of dollars more every year on prosecutors than it does on public defenders, according to records newly released by the state’s Legislature.
Documents show prosecutors' annual budgets totals over $103 million, 30% more than the Law Offices of the Public Defender.
The Law Offices of the Public Defender says New Mexico needs to double its current number of public defense attorneys.
The backlog has grown to 5,408 as of Wednesday.
This week on New Mexico in Focus, Gene Grant and a trio of special panelists discuss the end of Title 42. First, our panelists consider how officials around New Mexico prepared for the closing of the Trump-era immigration policy and ask...