re: #36 steve_davis

He can’t get a public defender in Florida. If you’ve got money in Florida, the judge will demand you make use of it. I still remember a video where a judge is telling an otherwise destitute defendant to sell her jewelry because the state wasn’t providing her with counsel.

That… actually sucks. I mean, don’t get me wrong, I want to see Trump go down in flames, but that is a fundamentally unfair approach to justice. In my American utopia, public defenders would be paid enough to retain as many as necessary, and no one would have to hire a criminal defense lawyer; the state would provide a defender for EVERYBODY, rich and poor alike.