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1. You don't pay, you just deposit money. If you show up to court, you get the money back. If you don't have that money on hand, its common to take out a loan.
by swebs 6y ago
1. You don't pay, you just deposit money. If you show up to court, you get the money back. If you don't have that money on hand, its common to take out a loan.
2. Everyone has the right to a free public defender. I don't know if there's any study on how they compare to private lawyers.
3, 4, 5, and 7. Low income people are eligible for Medicaid. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medicaid https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medicaid
6. I've never heard of location mattering
I wouldn't really base my worldview of something on what I see in fiction, since the purpose of these shows is to show drama, rather than to be informative. It wouldn't be as exciting to watch people solve their problems by applying for welfare.
- Miner49er 6y ago> You don't pay, you just deposit money. If you show up to court, you get the money back. If you don't have that money on hand, its common to take out a loan. If you're rich, yes. In practice, poor people can't round up enough money, so they must rely on a bondsman. So they'll pay something like 10% of the bail, and the bondsman will post the rest of the loan. The bondsman keeps the 10% at the end though. Often people can't even round up the 10% and have to just stay in jail.