Lawmakers have been trying to lighten the workload of public defenders in Idaho, passing several bills this session converting misdemeanor changes to lesser violations that don't require a defense attorney, writes AP reporter Ryan Struyk. But Struyk found the new bills combined account for less than 2 percent of state-level misdemeanors — leaving almost all of the laws that prompted 110,000 charges last year on the books, according to data from the Idaho Supreme Court.

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