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More Resources for Indigent Defense

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One of the excuses we hear for supposedly innocent defendants' supposedly being "railroaded" into jail is that indigent defense is too resource-starved to fight off rapacious prosecutors and their fabricated charges.

All that is baloney, with one exception.  We should indeed devote more resources to indigent defense.  The country is not going get a high quality legal system without paying for it. Adults need to understand this.

But hold on:  There's a way to provide it without raising taxes or more binge borrowing. The way is to draft lawyers to fulfill their obligations to the community that gives them their licenses.

I have suggested this before, but I find that I have a new and prominent ally  -- Justice Sonia Sotomayor.  Her remarks are reported by the National Law Journal:  "Sotomayor Urges Mandatory Pro Bono for All Lawyers."

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