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The state’s safety net for criminal defendants who can’t afford an attorney is no longer in crisis. Pay increases have slowed attorney resignations. Fewer people are waiting for a lawyer, and the wait is shorter. The Public Defender Program has stopped limiting new intakes and has even expanded some services.
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Frederick P. “Pope” Charleston Sr., an attorney who represented the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, died of primary progressive aphasia Sept. 3 at his Catonsville home. He was 76.
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Frederick P. “Pope” Charleston Sr., an attorney who represented the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, died of primary progressive aphasia Sept. 3 at his Catonsville home. He was 76.
Crushing caseloads had driven a mass exodus of public defenders, leaving 185 criminal defendants without no one to defend them.
Editor’s Note: This story was first published on New Hampshire Bulletin.Late last year, several of New Hampshire’s most experienced attorneys accepted an urgent invite to the state Supreme Court’s conference room. The state Supreme Court justices,...