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August 4, 2016

MO Public Defender Gives Case to Governor to Protest Lack of Funds
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And Missouri's lead public defender has ordered Missouri Governor Jay
Nixon to represent a poor defendant in court later this month, in
efforts to protest Nixon's refusal to sufficiently fund the Public
Defender's Office. Public defender Michael Barrett says he is using a
state law that allows him to delegate a client's legal representation to
any lawyer in Missouri. Governor Nixon is a lawyer. Barrett said Nixon
has declined to give the public defender system the money it requests.
Nixon is also withholding promised funding increases this year.


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