Sentences with phrase «patchwork public defense system»

Indeed, Idaho Gov. C.L. «Butch» Otter, many legislators and legal experts who have studied the issue on behalf of the state have all acknowledged that Idaho's patchwork public defense system is deficient at best, and likely unconstitutional.

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The lawsuit charged that New York State's decision to abdicate responsibility for public defense to its counties resulted in a patchwork of often understaffed, poorly resourced and largely dysfunctional public defense systems where defendants were routinely arraigned without attorneys, urged to take plea bargains regardless of the facts of their cases, burdened by excessively high bail, and incarcerated for shockingly long periods for misdemeanors and petty crimes.