Public records are ostensibly available but often hard to obtain, InvestigateWest finds.InvestigateWest
Emily Moyer, a 37-year-old photographer, was hoping public records could help save her fiancé.
With his criminal history and an arrest for drug and firearm possession charges, she said, he was facing life in prison. His public defender was overwhelmed.
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