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When systemic underfunding forces you to ration justice

I'm a public defender and I have too many cases to adequately represent anyone, so I have to choose which clients get real advocacy and which get rushed plea deals.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Resource constraints are making you complicit in the unequal treatment you became a lawyer to fight.

Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Utilitarian justice — greatest good?”

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