The legal community will likely feel a significant impact from hundreds of layoffs already announced by the Judicial Branch and the offices that oversee the state’s prosecutors and public defenders. But now the criminal defense bar is sounding the alarm about budget cuts that have largely gone under the radar: those at the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner (OCME).

On May 31, Chief Medical Examiner James Gill announced that major changes are coming to his office by mid-June, the result of a 5.25 percent cut to a $6.2 million annual budget.

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