uh no its called provide the constitutional right at an equal measure.
Don't break the law... lol
who pays for your attorney David?
the point is everyone is innocent until proven guilty and everyone has a right to legal counsel to aid in the defense.
Funding is not equal. The scales of justice are off.
That is what creates the divide.
so if the goal here is to ensure people are treated equally by the government is to improve legal counsel for the indigent.
because until a judge and a jury issue a guilty verdict its just some guy saying someone broke the law.
They still have to prove it.
Now I have supported ,demonstrating with easily verifiable statistics, an imbalance in the justice system. at an institutional level.
It is a problem that can and should be addressed.
maximum standards for how many cases public attorney handle a year by case type and when those numbers are reached either bringing in more public attorneys or contracting out as some cities havel already begun doing
Also balancing funding and mandating funding ratios between the DA office and public attorney office.
The courts are designed to be adversarial which is what differentiates America as a free state from a police state.
these are not people who have broken the law. these are people accused of breaking the law.
The Us districts also need to be examined and variances between US public defenders officers across the country should be adjusted to ensure all districts are meeting the needs of their constituency.
We still have plea bargaining, Jury selection and bail arraignment to cover.
This is all part of Due process.
@gourimoko, and I have discussed classism vs racism at length in these discussions
Most of my points are from a classism viewpoint. however many of these issues create a racial issues. so a lot of these things are intertwined.
A lot of these matter need to be addressed not just because they perpetuate racism but that they promote inequality. and addressing these matters remove barriers that a lot in the black demographics face on a daily basis.
some people take Jail terms as opposed to facing longer sentences against a jury that often has the defendants actual peers removed from consideration as a juror.
What we do have is a system that is supposed to make available Quality legal counsel for indigent defendants according to our constitution supported by multiple supreme court rulings on the matter.
Those parameters aren't being met
and this inequity heavily impacts a specific demographic of the population and perpetuates racism amongst the legal system and law enforcement once human nature is factored in.