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Minnesota lawyers frustrated over shortage of public defenders
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Kris Kolar is chief public defender for the 9th Judicial District in northwest Minnesota. Kolar says the public defender shortage has reached a crisis point. She's had eight public defenders quit in her district in just the past year. Kolar says the state needs to provide more funding. (MPR Photo/Tom Robertson)

Kris Kolar is chief public defender for the 9th Judicial District in northwest Minnesota. Kolar says the public defender shortage has reached a crisis point. She's had eight public defenders quit in her district in just the past year. Kolar says the state needs to provide more funding.

(MPR Photo/Tom Robertson)
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