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Archive Home > 2008 > November > 19 > Money for bail, but not a lawyer?

Money for bail, but not a lawyer?

Courts verify that clients qualify for free defense

By Cindy Powers / The Bulletin
November 19, 2008

By the time Robert Jennings Battles was sent to prison last year for arson, drug dealing and threatening his mother with a gun, he had bailed out of the Deschutes County jail multiple times, putting up a total of nearly $20,000 in cash.

Yet the 21-year-old was appointed a lawyer to represent him....

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