Podcast: Maine's long-awaited public defenders

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Podcast: Maine's long-awaited public defenders

This week on the Beacon Podcast, Cate interviews Hillary Knight with the Capital Region Public Defenders Office in Augusta, who clarifies what the right to counsel means for Mainers, some of the realities of meeting the constitutional right to counsel, and some hopeful developments in the state. After a lawsuit in 2022 (which is ongoing) claimed the state was violating poor defendants’ constitutional rights by failing to provide them with adequa…