Criminal
Jan. 13, 2025
LA County's innovative effort to address public defender conflicts wins plaudits
See more on LA County's innovative effort to address public defender conflicts wins plauditsThe new Independent Defense Counsel Office manages the county's panel of private lawyers who work as independent contractors and are ethically walled-off from the public defense lawyers employed by the county.
Crushing caseloads are just part of the problem facing Los Angeles County public defenders. There are also the administrative headaches that arise when multiple indigent criminal defendants on the same case need representation by lawyers independent of one another.
That happens plenty in the high-volume Los Angeles public defender business, where lawyers handled more than 50,000 cases last year, about 67 percent of all the criminal cases filed in the nation's largest court sy...
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