Politics & Government
Report Shows Damning Evidence that Court-Appointed Attorneys Don't Do Their Jobs
"Half the people in here say they're innocent. And I didn't believe that until what happened to me," inmate says.
(Posted Nov. 3, 2016) LANSING, MI— The Lansing State Journal has undertaken a large investigative project that has uncovered serious deficiencies in the effectiveness of court-appointed attorneys. For the project, the newspaper's reporters received 2015 indigent defense receipts in Ingham, Eaton and Clinton counties under the Michigan Freedom of Information Act, analyzed them and concluded, among other things, that only about 2 percent of them ever go to trial.
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