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I've always wondered why we don't just get rid of private lawyers and legal teams. That way, no one has an advantage or disadvantage. Even the wealthiest get on

• aninhumer 10y ago
  But how do you get rid of legal teams? Maybe you can insist on court appointed lawyers in court, but you can't really stop people with legal knowledge selling research and advice to rich people.
• bsder 10y ago
  > I've always wondered why we don't just get rid of private lawyers and legal teams. Because bringing the quality of someone else's defense down does not solve the fundamental problems of the justice system. The problem is that the justice system is unfair to the poor, PERIOD. And we need to fix that. The problem is not putting more rich kids in jail. In my opinion, the better change is to remove things like prosecutorial discretion for juries. If the prosecution can't make the case without stacking the deck, he shouldn't be making it.
  • krapht 10y ago
    That's a poor opinion. I wonder if a prosecutor without that discretion would've ever been able to make a civil rights charge stick in 60s Alabama in any majority-white county.
  • st3v3r 10y ago
    I don't think so. If the lawyer pool is so terrible, there will be people with incentive to fix it, and those fixes will benefit everyone, rather than the few it benefits now.