Mississippi Says Poor Defendants Must Always Have a Lawyer. Few Courts Are Ready to Deliver.
Mississippi Says Poor Defendants Must Always Have a Lawyer. Few Courts Are Ready to Deliver.
www.propublica.org Mississippi Says Poor Defendants Must Always Have a Lawyer. Few Courts Are Ready to Deliver.
A rule requiring poor criminal defendants to have a lawyer throughout the criminal process took effect Saturday. Few courts in the state have plans in place.
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I thought this was a federal law for years. Have poor people been trying to defend themselves all these years?
Or pressured into taking plea deals without advice of counsel for the sake of closing cases.