Mass. public defender agency rejects watchdog’s portrait of a broken system
The Massachusetts public defender agency, CPCS, has rejected a watchdog's report characterizing the system as broken, arguing that the report relied on misleading case count data.
CPCS concedes the system needs fixes, but says flawed case counts helped produce a deeply misleading picture of its lawyers’ work.
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