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‘One-fourth of not enough’

Public defenders get fraction of promised stimulus funds

Public defenders get fraction of promised stimulus funds

Kathleen Lear, comptroller of the Missouri Public Defender System, gives her report on the budget to the Public Defender Commission during the annual Missouri Bar Conference in St. Louis on Sept. 25. The state's public defender system will likely receive only $500,000 of the $2 million in federal recovery funds allocated to the beleaguered system by the state Legislature.


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