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Muskegon County prosecutor urges board to address staffing imbalance with public defender office
Summary
Prosecutor DJ Hilson told commissioners he supports public defender expansion but warned it creates staffing inequities, saying his office handles '100% of the criminal cases' while the public defender office 'sees 70%,' and asked the board to help 'balance that out.'
During the public-comment portion of the Muskegon County board meeting, Prosecutor DJ Hilson said he supports the public defender's office expansion but asked the board to recognize and address what he called a staffing inequity between prosecution and indigent defense.
Hilson told commissioners: "my office handles 100% of the criminal cases that come into the system" and said the public defender's office only "see[s] 70%…
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