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“O’Neal is still fighting his case, now with a new court-appointed lawyer.”

Samantha Melamed and Dylan Purcellpropublica.org ↗

Forty-one extensions. Nine years. One two-page petition. The judge granted every delay because no rule told him not to. Pennsylvania spends 57 cents a head on indigent defense, and this is what 57 cents buys.