Oregon Lawmakers Consider Reshaping Public Defender System Amid Crisis corvallisadvocate.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from corvallisadvocate.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The proposal would set up an hourly payment system and put public defenders on staff to bolster their ranks to represent the hundreds of people without legal representation
Many defendants in Oregon are waiting for legal representation which has prompted one county to dismiss hundreds of cases. But others say that's not fair to victims.
Decades after Oregonians approved Measure 11, instituting mandatory minimum sentences for some serious crimes, just under half of Oregonians think it’s fair to sentence adult offenders to the same time