NYCLU Strikes 'Historic' Public Defense Deal With NY
By Paul DeBenedetto ( October 21, 2014, 8:02 PM EDT) -- A class action settlement Tuesday between the New York Civil Liberties Union and the state will provide $5.5 million over two years to ensure indigent criminal defendants in five counties are represented by a public defender at arraignment, in what social justice advocates called a "historic" overhaul of New York's public defense system....
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