The city’s top public defender Friday warned significant budget shortfalls related to the COVID-19 pandemic are already threatening the viability of the program despite a much needed injection of cash just 10 days ago, and said furloughs and other programmatic cuts could return.
And that could make it hard, if not impossible, to mount an adequate defense, particularly for residents who can't afford to pay for lawyers or expert witnesses on their own.
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