Oregon’s latest plan to reduce public defense crisis makes it worse, analysis says

Published on: 02/23/2025

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The blunt assessment sounds the alarm on a long-term plan approved last fall by the Oregon Public Defense Commission, the agency charged with managing the state’s patchwork, complex and perpetually embattled public defense system.

The state plan to address Oregon’s unchecked backlog of criminal defendants without court-appointed lawyers will not only fail to solve the problem but is expected to significantly exacerbate the crisis, according to a new analysis.

News Source : https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2025/02/oregons-latest-plan-to-reduce-public-defense-crisis-makes-it-worse-analysis-says.html

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