Submitted By: genedieken@yahoo.com – Click to email about this post
I agree with Dixie about something!
Oregon must put much more money and attention into the public defender system. Trying to avoid hiring public employees by hiring private lawyers for gig work is largely inadequate to live up to the requirements of the 6th Amendment or MLK’s famous quote, “Justice long delayed is justice denied.”
I can’t entirely agree with her that the point of Defender reform should be to put more people in jail. I worry that compassion denied can soon become enmity applied.
Here’s an interview with the executive director of the Oregon Office of Public Defense Services that aired last August: www.opb.org/article/2023/08/22/head-of-oregon-office-of-public-defense-services-on-progress-toward-solving-the-attorney-crisis/
In the same post, Dixie worried about where her Kicker refund was. Oregon’s not stiffing you. File your 2023 state tax form. www.oregon.gov/dor/programs/individuals/pages/kicker.aspx
Gene Dieken
Oregon must put much more money and attention into the public defender system. Trying to avoid hiring public employees by hiring private lawyers for gig work is largely inadequate to live up to the requirements of the 6th Amendment or MLK’s famous quote, “Justice long delayed is justice denied.”
I can’t entirely agree with her that the point of Defender reform should be to put more people in jail. I worry that compassion denied can soon become enmity applied.
Here’s an interview with the executive director of the Oregon Office of Public Defense Services that aired last August: www.opb.org/article/2023/08/22/head-of-oregon-office-of-public-defense-services-on-progress-toward-solving-the-attorney-crisis/
In the same post, Dixie worried about where her Kicker refund was. Oregon’s not stiffing you. File your 2023 state tax form. www.oregon.gov/dor/programs/individuals/pages/kicker.aspx
Gene Dieken