State moves toward expanded access to lawyers for poor: STATE: Though New York has to pay, counties concerned about flow of reimbursement

"ALBANY — Low-income New Yorkers who find themselves in handcuffs too often go without representation at arraignments or end up with undertrained, overloaded lawyers who have little time to advocate for their clients, legal experts say.

It's a situation that officials with the State Office of Indigent Legal Services hope to begin to rectify in the coming year, with cooperation from county governments..."

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