Thursday

Senate backs public defender raise

Sorry for the recent silence...
But this just in...The state Senate approved pay raises for court-appointed attorneys last night, just days before a Supreme Judicial Court hearing could shine an embarrassing spotlight on the deepening lawyer shortage in Massachusetts.

Regular readers will recall my article in Slate about the deepening crisis in indigent defense in Massachusetts. (read it here) Well it looks like the impasse may be broken, though the question of the effacacy of rate raises remains an open one...

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