Heather Cessna, executive director of the Kansas State Board of Indigents’ Defense, says the state needs to invest more in public defense services. This picture is from a February 2022 podcast recording at the Kansas Reflector office in Topeka. (Noah Taborda/Kansas Reflector)
By Rachel Mipro KansasReflector.com TOPEKA — A top public defender in Kansas says the state is at a crisis point on the 60th anniversary of…