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Zeke Peña, special to ProPublica

This article was produced by The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal, formerly a member of ProPublica's Local Reporting Network, in partnership with ProPublica and The Marshall Project.

Three months after Mississippi’s Supreme Court directed judges in the state to ensure that poor criminal defendants always have a lawyer as they wait to be indicted, one of those justices acknowledged that the rule isn’t being widely followed.

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