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WA: chop chop

We made KIRO TV tonight, and not for a good reason:Huge Impact Possible With Cuts To Thurston County CourtsFour public defenders who handle a total of more than a 1,000 cases a year are on the chopping block - the result will be a caseload increase for the remaining public defenders with potentially serious consequences."They're going to get overburdened, they're going to get stressed out and they're not going to give the kind of defense that they should give," said Sally Harrison, director of the Office of Assigned Counsel...Video here.That's it, I'm off to vacation (unpaid - thanks, budget cuts!)

Full post as published by Arbitrary and Capricious on April 03, 2009 (boomark / email).