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Criminal justice reformers have long complained that the state’s rules on appointing public defenders leave poor defendants without a lawyer as they wait to be indicted.
The state’s Supreme Court moved to end a “dead zone” in the dysfunctional public defender system.
Criminal justice reformers have long complained that the state’s rules on appointing public defenders leave poor defendants without a lawyer as they wait to be indicted.
Mississippi Supreme Court says indigent defendants must have an attorney before indictment and not languish in jail awaiting representation.