Starting Tuesday, October 1st there will be a drastic change in how the public defender’s office is run across the State of Idaho, and that has many looking for new lines of work. It could also potentially impact one of the highest profile cases here in the state.
- Starting October 1st the State’s public defenders will be under one roof.
- State Public Defender Eric Fredericksen explains how it works.
- How will this impact the Bryan Kohberger trial in Ada County?
(Below is the transcript from the broadcast story)
“The biggest change we’re going to have is uniformed representation across the state,” said Eric Fredericksen.
Eric Fredericksen was appointed to run the State Public Defender’s Office by Governor Brad Little last year. Little signed legislation making Fredericksen responsible for organizing all 44 public defenders under his roof, with the help of District Defenders.
“So, there’s a caseload, an X amount of cases today, what happens tomorrow,” I asked.
So, we met over the weekend, we had a meeting with all of our district defenders because they are critical to this, they’re the ones who are familiar with the areas. We did coverage that all we did this weekend so that we had coverage that everyone was coverage across the state,” Fredericksen answered.