• underisk@lemmy.ml
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    8 days ago

    If public defenders are good enough for everyone else, they’re good enough for politicians. Maybe they’ll actually get some funding and support that way.

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      8 days ago

      Agreed ,the only defenders should be public and appointed by a lottery. If you can butu a better defender the system is corrupt.

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      8 days ago

      You don’t get a public defender for civil lawsuits, which are the majority of those kinds of lawsuits. So no, public defenders aren’t good enough for everyone, because they don’t exist for civil lawsuits.

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        Yep that is an accurate description of the way the broken system currently works. Thanks!

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          Yeah. That’s the proper response to your statement being wrong. Lol. . .

          Yes, the system has issues–the issue being that the loser in the suit doesn’t take the burden of reasonable attorney costs for both parties. That alone would fix most of it. Government doesn’t need to give anyone a right to a civil lawyer.

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            “We should change the way things work.” “Thats not how things work” great argument buddy, glad we could hash this out.