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Overburdened Public Defenders Decry New Orleans Guilt Mill
The city’s chief public defender says 52 attorneys are responsible for 20,000 criminal cases each year. He says the New Orleans courts have become a criminal processing system–“a conveyor belt that starts when you are arrested.”