Number of Oregon criminal defendants without lawyers increases; Senator calls for ‘less talk,’ ‘more action’

A state senator unleashed on public officials who are tasked with solving the state’s worsening public defender shortage, which over the past few years has continued to reach record-breaking depths with the criminal cases of more than 3,500 defendants now languishing without court-appointed lawyers. “I just don’t feel the…

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