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Court-appointed lawyers and their clients face fallout from government shutdown, funding crisis
Funding shortfall halted payments to Criminal Justice Act panel attorneys, causing case delays and risking defendants’ constitutional rights in multiple federal districts.
- Thousands of court-appointed lawyers have not been paid since June due to a funding shortfall of $130 million for the Defender Services program, which ran out on July 3.
- Michael Chernis, a CJA panel attorney, stated, 'The system’s about to break.'
- Judge Robert Conrad noted that Congress provided an extra $114 million for the Defender Services program to help with panel attorney payments.
- California’s Chief Judge Dolly Gee described the situation as 'dire' in a letter.
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Court-appointed lawyers and their clients face fallout from government shutdown, funding crisis
The longest U.S. government shutdown in history is officially over, but the fallout will continue to hit federally funded defense lawyers and the people they represent.
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