Poor Mother Convicted Of Post-Birth Abortion
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I don't think people should have or need attorneys for criminal (or most civil) cases.
If you are innocent, it should be possible to defend yourself. If you are guilty, no attorney should be able to save you from the consequences.
Instead, we have a system where the means to hire attorneys are used as a proxy for guilt or innocence, depriving the innocent of justice as defendants and society of justice as prosecutors. The law has been twisted into an ever-expanding justification for the profession of attorney, ballooned far beyond the ability of a reasonably intelligent man who focuses his attentions on other matters to even maintain a cursory knowledge of, let alone grasp firmly enough to abide by it or apply it.
What's that bit in your Miranda rights? Oh yeah, if you cannot afford an attorney one will be provided to you.
Miranda was leftist garbage from the same courts that ruled the State had the right to legislate what you grew on your own land, what you put in your own body, who you spoke with, and how you defended your own property.
That decision can get fucked along with the rest of them.
Ok you're actually retarded.
Must be a lawyer, with that fantastic riposte.
You obviously don't know that Miranda v. Arizona didn't change, confer, enshrine, or enumerate any new rights. There's not even an explicit warning, contrary to what police procedural dramas would have you believe, and it doesn't bar police from lying to someone in custody about the evidence against them.
Actual fucking midwit.
Yet more legal illiteracy. Do you have any idea how difficult the court system is to navigate. The rules of evidence alone would bar 99% of the population from self representation
The rules of medical billing are horrendously complex, but I don't see anyone claiming the moral necessity of retaining the services of a compliance expert for every doctor's visit.
Every illiterate trog in this dogpile seems to have glossed over the part about demolishing the entire system and starting over without the centuries of additional and unnecessary complexity added in by generations of lawyers looking for job security.
It's not needlessly complex. It's complex because of so many safeguards neing put in place over the years to safeguard the innocent people you don't think need lawyers
If you think our legal system protects the innocent, I have a bridge to sell you.