What you've got is poor people with acute legal needs not being able to have those needs met, said Ernie Lewis, head of the state public-defender system and a board member of APPALRED. 
Ernie Lewis isn't an APPALRED board member although he is in charge of the state public-defender system.
mnli hypothesis: Ernie Lewis isn't an APPALRED board member although he is in charge of the state public-defender system. premise: What you've got is poor people with acute legal needs not being able to have those needs met, said Ernie Lewis, head of the state public-defender system and a board member of APPALRED. 