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60 Minutes: Inside NOLA public defenders' decision to refuse felony cases

60 minutes"Here, we have a criminal justice system, stories of innocence throughout and profound. And we still haven't had the urgency that I think we need to reform it so that we don't destroy lives. Because make no mistake, we're destroying lives. And we will no longer be complicit in that kind of injustice."

- OPD Chief Defender Derwyn Bunton, talks to 60 Minutes' Anderson Cooper about the injustices of our criminal justice system and the chronic underfunding of public defense in Louisiana.

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