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There is more turmoil at the agency that provides legal services for the state’s indigent over a memo from the Chief Public Defender instructing staff to disregard official hiring policy promulgated by the agency’s’ oversight board. The disagreement at the increasingly fractured agency appears to have arisen as the Public Defender Services Commission, which has authority under state law over ...