NEW: Some Are Jailed in Mississippi for Months Without a Lawyer. The State Supreme Court Just Barred That.
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Criminal justice reformers have long complained that the state’s rules on appointing public defenders leave poor defendants without a lawyer as they wait to be indicted.

*Published with Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal and The Marshall Project*

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