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Mississippi Says Poor Defendants Must Always Have a Lawyer. Few Courts Are Ready to Deliver.
(www.propublica.org)
this post was submitted on 06 Jul 2023
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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.