A public defense crisis in Louisiana: 33 of 42 public defenders' offices refusing clients due to funding shortfalls
 

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Early last year, Louisiana prosecutors accused and a grand jury indicted local resident Darrian Franklin of second-degree murder after 35-year-old Trenton Gary was shot five times and left to die on the side of Behrman Highway.

In the coming months, Franklin may be released from Orleans Parish Prison. But it?s not because a jury has found him to be innocent of the crime.?