Drug Policy

expect more from a government paid public pretender?

They see their job as coercing a defendant into some sort of plea in the belief that everyone the government charges is guilty. What would the founder/framers think of a system that resolves 90+ percent of cases with plea bargains sidestepping all constitutional provisions afforded a criminal defendant. One of these that the entire system embraces is ineffective assistance of counsel. Both prosecutors and public pretenders work together to coerce the defendant into a plea deal. Not the way it is supposed to work in the USA.