This is by far the worst it’s ever been. We get public defenders now who are having health problems — people in their 30s or 40s going to the doctor with heart and blood pressure issues. I know of people who are on leave because of emotional breakdowns.

John Stuart, Minnesota’s chief public defender, on the strained public defender system in Minnesota

From “Minnesota’s public defender shortage: ‘We are fast becoming the courts of McJustice’,” by Jeff Severns Guntzel

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