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Two public defenders asked that more be done to protect El Paso inmates from COVID-19. Their boss’s response threw the office into turmoil.

The El Paso County Public Defender’s Office has been roiled in recent weeks by what many in the office saw as an effort to reprimand two attorneys for saying the county wasn’t doing enough to protect jail inmates from COVID-19. The controversy started after deputy public defenders Octavio Arturo Dominguez and Brian Livingston published an […]