Oklahoma City Four years ago, Robert Ravitz, Chief Public Defender for Oklahoma County, wrote words of praise for a champion in the battle protect the rights of those justly
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There is more turmoil at the agency that provides legal services for the state’s indigent over a memo from the Chief Public Defender instructing staff to disregard official hiring policy promulgated by the agency’s’ oversight board. The disagreement at the increasingly fractured agency appears to have arisen as the Public Defender Services Commission, which has authority under state law over .
“You have the right to an attorney. If you cannot afford an attorney, one will be provided for you.” These words, contained in the now-famous Miranda rights, reflect every American’s