Reply #14: Kind of makes you wonder what the percentage of guilty people to [View All]

innocent people there are in the prison systems today. Too many people cannot afford a lawyer, and those that can, too often get a substandard lawyer. The Public Defenders are absolutely overwhelmed by far too many cases and often encourage those accused to accept a plea bargain whether they are guilty or not.

Too many in the criminal divisions of law enforcement tend to become very judgemental and seriously jaded. They have an "everyone's guilty of something" type attitude and are unable to see exculpatory evidence for what it is when they have made up their minds to someone's guilt.

I think perhaps those working in the criminal law should be rotated out on a regular basis to save their objectivity. And Public Defenders should be funded to have at least the same number of lawyers and investigators as does the (publicly funded) prosecution side.