Defense attorney crisis in Kansas

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The Kansas legal system is in a bind financially and ethically. While 85% of adult criminal cases in Kansas require appointed counsel, there's a real lack of state funding, there's a massive caseload and there's high defense attorney turnover. It all calls into question whether the state is meeting its constitutional requirement to provide for the defense of the poor. Heather Cessna, executive director of the Kansas State Board of Indigent Defense, joins the Kansas Reflector podcast to explain why we all should care about the predicament.

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