With the utter breakdown of the public defender system in Louisiana showing no sign of abating,the New Orleans Times-Picayune has published a profile of an average public defense attorney who has remained faithful to the cause despite having every conceivable reason to find a new job. In a detail that English teachers in Louisiana would no doubt describe as the perfect example of irony whether Louisiana education budgets weren’t sitting on the chopping block alongside the public defender system, the article notes that the defender’s office is so broke it can’t even afford a lawyer for itself.
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