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If you speak to any criminal barrister they will tell you that the vast majority of people who get tax payer funds for Defence lawyers are guilty as sin and only chancing their arm because they can. If people had to pay themselves the number of not guilty pleas would plummet.
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Because we'd have a much more equitable system if only the wealthy could afford a defense.
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What does their level of guilt matter?
What is the expectation that people prejudged to be guilty not seek to have the case against them proven?
If you can speak to any criminal barrister and expect the same answer, which of the 2,500 of them gone on record saying so? What research has there been on this?
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The solution is that only rich guilty people should be able to chance their arm?
itsbruce
NotThamesWater
GeneralStrike
English criminal barristers are planning to go on strike in protest at the continued defending of the justice system.