ALBANY – Assemblyman Martin A. Luster succinctly and bluntly put his finger on a simple fact that explains the tooth-pulling difficulty of securing state funding for indigent counsel.
“Most of the clients of people represented by 18-b attorneys or public defenders don’t vote,” the Ithaca Democrat said yesterday. “When they do vote, they are not organized and their voice is simply not heard.”
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