A Governor Ordered to Serve as a Public Defender

[SunsetBengal]

(08-05-2016, 11:59 PM)HarleyDog Wrote: Over worked and underpaid is only part of the problem. Many are incompetent. I've seen public defenders in action, and in zero cases has any of them had the knowledge and expertise to even argue a case. I won't say that is the majority, wait, yes I will. You are guilty in this society unless you can pay a good attorney who can give you representation. If you don't have cash or a rich family member who loves you very much? Prepare to do time, regardless if your guilty or not!

It's not that way everywhere in the US, Harley.  The County I come from in Ohio, all of the Professional attorneys "take turns" at being Public Defender, while still maintaining their public practice.  Defendants get the full service of an attorney that is well known and practiced in that particular court.  Sort of unique, but it works.  None of the attorneys gets "stuck" with all of the shit forever, and they don't lose any money from their paying clients.