Mississippi Makes Move Toward State-Funded Public Defenders
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Indigent felony defendants in many counties have lacked court-appointed lawyers before indictment, even while they sat in jails for weeks or months.

Mississippi lawmakers met in May for a special session to finalize the state’s budget and agreed to spend $668,000 on a test program to improve public defense in one of the state’s most rural court districts.

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