Kentucky’s Public Defenders

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Our agency’s mission is to provide high-quality, client-centered legal representation to indigent persons of all ages accused of crimes or facing a deprivation of liberty throughout the Commonwealth of Kentucky.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

— Martin Luther King, Jr. —

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