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WARSAW — Plans to establish a public defenders’ office in Kosciusko County saw some progress Thursday night.
The county council agreed to start paying an existing three-member board that will oversee the office a quarterly stipend as well as a small bonus of sorts for the work they did last year in in helping prepare plans for establishing the office.
The local court system has struggled for years to attract lawyers willing to take on cases in which offenders seek or are assigned a public defender…