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A new commission made up of legislators, public defenders, academics and advocates seeks to push California \u2014 one of just two states that don\u2019t pay for basic public defense \u2014 to begin providing resources and enforcing minimum standards for county public defender systems.<\/p>\n

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The California Independent Commission on Public Defense includes three assemblymembers and two senators \u2014 among them Jesse Arregu\u00edn and Nick Schultz, chairs of the Senate and Assembly Public Safety Committees \u2014 as well as chief public defenders from several counties, retired judges, the directors of criminal justice nonprofits, and the heads of organizations representing thousands of defense attorneys in the state.<\/p>\n

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