Dysfunction at Oregon public defense agency revealed in memo

Dysfunction at Oregon public defense agency

Office of Public Defense Services Executive Director Stephen Singer speaks during a virtual meeting earlier this year.

The meeting between Stephen Singer, the pugnacious head of the state’s public defense agency, and Oregon’s chief justice went off the rails almost immediately.

Instead of untangling the growing crisis of defendants without legal representation in Marion County, Singer blew his top, according to an account of the April 28 virtual meeting from the chair of the commission that hired him.

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