382 | What Stopped North Dakota Public Defenders from Refusing New Cases? w/Travis Fink

Public Defenseless · Aug 7, 2025 · 1h 3m

Today, Hunter was joined once again by the Executive Director of North Dakota's Commission of Legal Counsel for the Indigent, Travis Fink. Last time, Travis joined the show to detail a bleak outlook for public defense in the state. Not enough attorneys in both the contract and full-time systems, inadequate pay, and crushing workloads left Travis with little choice. He drafted up a letter preparing to tell the courts the public defender would be taking no new cases, but before he could send it out, the legislature threw the system a lifeline.

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Travis Fink, Executive Director, North…