Re: An end to "court appointed attorneys"

At 10:49 PDT on Wednesday, August 20, 1997, Tim May wrote: |>Maybe for the simple reason that some people might not have the money to |>defend themselves ? | |And what of those without the money to feed themselves? Etc. The difference is that the lack of means to feed oneself is usually self- selected. Political criminals, or people simply unaware that they're felons under an increasing number of laws, seldom have a choice whether they will be arrested and tried. Certainly the preferred solution is to junk most of the laws on the books. However until committing a felony is an explicit conscious act, we will need court-appointed attorneys for persecution victims. /pbp