Seems to me that state officials being sued in their official capacity should have to rely on state lawyers to defend those cases. Otherwise, we need to fire all those lawyers on the public dole.
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Public defenders are mostly in private practice. Even though there is an official public defender’s office. They don’t have a lot of lawyers. Plus the public defender’s office only participates in criminal cases. And never represents the municipality.