Justice
Louisiana Is Not Taking Its Public Defenders Crisis Seriously
With no plan in sight to pay for legal defense for the indigent, state district attorneys are now labeling lawyers "greedy anarchists" for pushing back.
Louisiana state prosecutors have not replied kindly to the private lawyers who asked New Orleans courts last month to fund their representation of poor criminal defendants, or else free those defendants from custody.
New Orleans Assistant District Attorney David S. Pipes wrote on behalf of Louisiana in response to the lawyers’ request: