claim: if the sequester hits, federal prosecutors will have to "let criminals go."
author: barack obama
evidence_1: feb 19, 2013 ... remarks by the president on the sequester ... federal prosecutors will have to  close cases and let criminals go. ... but if they can't get such a budget agreement  done by next friday -- the day these harmful cuts begin to take effect -- then at  minimum, congress should pass a smaller package of spending ...
evidence_2: if the sequester hits, federal prosecutors will have to "let criminals go." —  politifact national on friday, february 22nd, 2013. mostly false. congress  passed it, but that's not the whole story. barack obama · "the sequester is not  something that i've proposed. it is something that congress has proposed." —  politifact national ...
evidence_3: mar 18, 2013 ... we have clients who need mental health experts to examine them, but whom  must wait until the next budget allotment comes. we have investigators who can  no longer go to the scenes of crimes, but call instead. we watch pennies so we  can order transcripts. the impact of sequestration in criminal justice ...
evidence_4: aug 3, 2013 ... wainwright, the landmark u.s. supreme court decision holding that defendants  in state courts have a constitutional right to have a lawyer appointed for them if  they can't afford one. (federal criminal defendants got that sixth amendment  guarantee of representation in a supreme court ruling 25 years ...
evidence_5: mar 11, 2013 ... if you want to go to trial in a civil case, or are charged with a federal crime, the  sequester will impact you. all of the constituencies of the judiciary ... federal  public defenders, whose budgets have been cut twice in two months, are  furloughing and laying off staff. the attorney general of the united states has ...