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The public defenders in St. Louis County say they're overworked and are threatening to refuse any new cases there, the Post-Dispatch reports. The defenders in Troy and Springfield have taken similar steps, and you might remember there was a problem with this last summer, too. The prosecutor isn't terribly sympathetic and accuses the defenders of sandbagging.
"They are counting their cases in some magical way," he said.
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