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AI and Public Defender Caseload Triage: Equity Without Abandonment
AI-driven case triage in overloaded public defender offices must not become a justification for under-representation.
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- 1The premise
- 2public defense
- 3triage
- 4Sixth Amendment
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Section 1
The premise
Public defenders carry crushing caseloads. AI triage can route attention efficiently, but if the score becomes a fig leaf for inadequate funding, it deepens the constitutional crisis.
What AI does well here
- Identify cases with strong suppression or dismissal motions
- Summarize discovery for faster issue-spotting
- Flag clients with overlapping immigration or family-court exposure
What AI cannot do
- Substitute for the constitutional right to effective counsel
- Predict which clients will accept what plea offers fairly
- Solve a structural under-funding problem
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