Well yeah, isn't this basically the entire point of that part of the system? "We think we can have you locked up for XX years and know you can't afford a decent

Well yeah, isn't this basically the entire point of that part of the system? "We think we can have you locked up for XX years and know you can't afford a decent lawyer to fight it, but if you make our jobs easier we'll only have you locked up for X years instead."