Some have complained that government funding of legal services for the indigent amounts to funneling tax dollars to criminals. That’s one of the arguments the head of North Carolina’s Office of Indigent Defense Services rebutted during a presentation Monday to the John Locke Foundation’s Shaftesbury Society.
IDS Executive Director Thomas Maher says support for indigent defense services has been growing across partisan and ideological lines. He offers one reason why in the video clip below.
Access the full 48:45 presentation below.