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Public defender showdown averted

The Missouri Public Defender Commission on Friday backed off a plan to close the state public defender’s office to new cases, saying it wanted to give the state Legislature more time to solve the system’s caseload crisis. Although several members of the commission came to the meeting expecting a vote to be taken, Commissioner Miller Leonard, ...

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