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.
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The media is a major pain when reporting on any attorney, even if they are a public defender.
Yeah, that piece is utterly one-sided and unfair.
Being from Detroit, I listened to the NPR piece with interest. I recognized Bob Slameka by description, though I do not know him personally. I then asked a few other attorneys about the piece. Slameka is seen as a dean of the defense bar in Detroit by those who know his work. The NPR piece unfairly represented him as a poster boy for the funding issue.
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