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By waive do you mean invoke? Because otherwise this makes no sense.
by idontpost 8y ago
By waive do you mean invoke? Because otherwise this makes no sense.
- xenophonf 8y agoYou have a right to a speedy trial by default. You can only waive that right, which many people do in order to have more time to build a defense. Someone1234 is saying that people making use of indigent defense resources _should not_ follow that strategy, which is to say that they should _preserve_ their right to a speedy trial. Because indigent defense resources are stretched so thin, delaying your trial to build a defense won't do any good because public defenders will only use the extra time to work on other people's trials. Since you're indigent (poor), you probably can't afford bail or a bondsman, so all that extra prep time that in reality goes toward defending other people involves you sitting in jail. As a result, you'll lose your job plus whatever other resources you have, which makes you even more poor. People end up pleading guilty to crimes they didn't commit just to get out of that vicious cycle.