Gov. Wolf Proposes New Investments to Build Successful Future for Pennsylvania Families
Gov. Wolf outlined his vision for a generational investment in education, to raise wages, attract innovative industries, and create good jobs.
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Gov. Wolf outlined his vision for a generational investment in education, to raise wages, attract innovative industries, and create good jobs.
"We need more than three times as many attorneys as we currently have to do a constitutionally effective job on cases."
The American Bar Association and consulting firm Moss Adams LLP released two reports in January on public defender shortages in New Mexico and Oregon, and legal experts say that these shortages have been the norm for years in states across the U.S.
ABA SCLAID and Moss Adams collaboratively conducted the Oregon Project, An Analysis of Public Defense Attorney Workloads. Published in January 2022, the Oregon Project includes an analysis of historical public defense caseloads and staffing,
Oregon has only roughly one-third of the public defense attorneys it needs to provide reasonably effective assistance to low-income defendants