The other nice thing: you could actually get lawyers to work on the grounds of "you only pay if we win" for criminal cases. This would, presumably, mean "state-

The other nice thing: you could actually get lawyers to work on the grounds of "you only pay if we win" for criminal cases. This would, presumably, mean "state-provided" defense lawyers would be the best available, as opposed to whoever they can scrounge up as a public defender. Also, presumably, the cost of good legal defense should be less than the $20,000 cost/year for incarceration.