Court appointed legal counsel is simply government oil for the machinery of an already corrupt legal system. The case loads of court appointed attorneys suffers from such massive traffic court appointed attorneys seldom represent anyone more than a minute or two in the courtroom itself without prior consultation or research in behalf of their clients leaving the accused with nothing more than a court appointed TRAFFIC DIRECTOR who caters to the Judge and really does not represent them at all. This is a terrible waste of the public treasury and is a horrible injustice in itself.

        Police know upon confronting the poor how vulnerable and defenseless they are in the system. If you do not already know it, law enforcement officers are placed in a predatory role because the poor cannot oppose them when they are wrong or abusive of their power. This is an imbalance produced by the oppressive use of taxpayers money in hiring attorneys who do not defend the poor.

        The cost to taxpayers for court appointed attorneys was well over fifty million a year in Orange County, California at the turn of the Century for inadequate representation.

        What is the solution?

        There are many ills the States have been unable to fix. Wasteful City and County budgets for court appointed attorneys is just one of a multitude of those ills Congress or State legislatures could legislate real legal representation for the accused who cannot afford to purchase justice.

        What is needed is a Constitutional Amendment requiring a lawyer pool for the accused to choose from who would retain the right to fire as well as to hire from that pool, and for the accused to draw from funds supplied for the purpose of their representation in court. The managment of such a program would be complex particularly when the astronomical numbers of arrested individuals is divided into the treasury pie.

        Compare the managment problems with the multitudes of victims of power abuse by law enforcement in carrying off the poor to jail where they not only suffer from lack of proper representation, they often times suffer the loss of their vehicles, their jobs, their abodes, their health and even their families.

        A much greater balance is needed in America for this to be a healthy nation. Too many of the poor are arrested without a just cause and once arrested, are put in the position of being guilty til they prove themselves innocent.

        Proper representation will help turn it all around to the way it should be. Innocent til proven guilty. Proper represention will help put the brakes on the growing police state.