If you’re charged with a crime in this country, and you can’t afford to hire an attorney to represent you, the state is required to hire one for you.
It’s so fundamental to the proper functioning of our criminal justice system that the right to an attorney is guaranteed in the constitution.
Spending taxpayer dollars on criminal defense lawyers for people who are accused of breaking the law isn’t the most popular thing for elected officials to do. But it is the right thing to do.
Our criminal justice system is based on a few basic tenets:
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