Staffing crisis forces Maui public defender’s office into ‘triage mode’ (Honolulu Advertiser)

January 10, 2010 by admin · Leave a Comment 

WAILUKU, Maui — Short nearly one-third of its allotted attorneys and stuck in the state hiring freeze, the Maui public defender’s office will no longer appear for defendants in Wailuku District Court. “It’s just desperate times calling for desperate measures,” said Wendy Hudson, supervising deputy public defender of the Maui office. “We are in total triage mode.”