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Public defenders move to stop adding cases

The Missouri State Public Defender’s Office is on the verge of refusing to allow its attorneys to take new cases — what one public defender commissioner referred to as “the nuclear option.” A vote of the Public Defender Commission via conference call Friday would have issued the directive immediately but failed 3-2 over concerns about ...

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