The justice is sham there because the other side mostly brought forth lawyers. If both sides were being defended by vaguely similar public defenders, the result

The justice is sham there because the other side mostly brought forth lawyers. If both sides were being defended by vaguely similar public defenders, the result might be different. This only shows that using lawyers is a classic game theory problem. Both people using lawyers prolly makes the system worse off overall, but neither side can defect in isolation. Think of divorce lawyers for example so that you don't feel this is about criminals on one side and innocent people on the other. In a divorce settlement, neither side is usually the criminal, and yet they spent thousands of dollars lawyering up in a bizarre game of mutually assured destruction. cf. The Marriage Story.