Audit: Minnesota public defenders shoulder high caseloads even by 30-year-old standards
Minnesota public defenders are struggling under heavy caseloads to fulfill their constitutional obligation to represent every person accused of a crime who can’t afford a lawyer, according to a report from the Office of the Legislative Auditor released on Tuesday. The state’s roughly 600 public defenders represented people in more than 135,000 cases in 2025, […]
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