The real story of the PD crisis

Last week NPR caused a minor uproar among public defenders with its hatchet piece on the state of the profession featuring perhaps the nation’s worst public defender, Bob Slameka.

Now, Woman of the Law gives us the beginning of the real story with her simple statement of what it really means to be a public defender. NPR should do a story on the PD funding crisis featuring WotL and others like her.

Thanks, WotL, for the simple reminder of why we do — and love — this work.