{"id":11854,"date":"2014-06-03T12:59:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-03T17:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=11854"},"modified":"2014-06-03T12:59:00","modified_gmt":"2014-06-03T17:59:00","slug":"wapo-indigent-and-need-a-lawyer-it-may-cost-you-the-fourth-amendment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=11854","title":{"rendered":"WaPo: Indigent and need a lawyer? It may cost you the Fourth Amendment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/the-watch\/wp\/2014\/06\/03\/indigent-and-need-a-lawyer-it-may-cost-you-the-fourth-amendment\/\">Indigent and need a lawyer? It may cost you the Fourth Amendment<\/a> by Radley Balko:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Add this one to your \u201ccriminalization of poverty\u201d files. It seems that McLennan County, Tex., has a new public employee:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The presence of a new McLennan County indigent defense investigator has substantially reduced the number of requests for court-appointed, county-funded attorneys.<\/p>\n<p>McLennan County Indigent Defense Coordinator Cathy Edwards said she has seen about a 40 percent drop in requests since sheriff\u2019s office Detective Eric Carrizales began investigating them in November. Edwards said she received as many as 50 applicants in a week prior to Carrizales\u2019 arrival. Now, she sees about 30.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: Indigent and need a lawyer? It may cost you the Fourth Amendment by Radley Balko: Add this one to your \u201ccriminalization of poverty\u201d files. It seems that McLennan County, Tex., has a new public employee: The presence of a &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=11854\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-informational-privacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11854"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11855,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11854\/revisions\/11855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}