Staffing issues within the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office continue to contribute to roadblocks in the city’s criminal justice system. And lawyers said they still feel the impact of the DAO’s losses.

Irina Ehrlich, a solo practitioner and leading criminal defense lawyer, said she had seen cases repeatedly continued and passed from one prosecutor to another due to the understaffing, and her clients suffer from the office’s mismanagement. ”It does affect everything, and that’s because I don’t think they have enough people to try cases,” Ehrlich said.