Public defender plan raises rural ire

[flashl]

N.C. official's proposal for counties east of Charlotte slammed by community and fought by legislator.

When the state public defender wanted to open an office in a rural district near Charlotte, he thought there could be some resistance from private defense attorneys.

Instead, Tye Hunter said he was stunned by what he called “vociferous” opposition throughout much of the community.

Judges told him public defenders weren't needed, and a state representative threatened to curtail the power of the state-funded Office of Indigent Defense Services.

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State Rep. Melanie Wade Goodwin, a Democrat who represents Richmond County, recently followed through with her threat.

Goodwin lobbied her colleagues to remove a provision that allows the public defender's office to expand into new counties without approval from the General Assembly.

Charlotte Observer

[no_hypocrisy]

1. Guess they have a problem with poor people having access to legal representation.

After all they belong in jail for being poor alone, save for whatever crime they probably committed.

:sarcasm:

[islandmkl]

2. i used to do some business development in the Charlotte region...

and I have even started some businesses in two of those counties...

just let me say, "Ya'll got no idea."

One of the largest towns in one of the mentioned counties (the county seat to boot) has not passed a school bond for improvements since 1954!!....you do your history and see what happened back then...

answer: Brown versus The Board of Education.

these rednecks (and they are proud of it) would just as soon have bad schools for everybody as opposed to 'educatin' them n---ers'.