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As a practical matter, to be a lawyer typically you have to go to college for 4 years, go to law school for 3 years, and then take the bar exam. As a consequence, there really aren't too many imbecile attorneys, as the system weeds them out. That said, the top-tier students tend to get "biglaw" jobs that pay a lot of money, and public defenders are generally people with more modest options, such that any law job tends to look good.
You shouldn't read my message literally. I just meant the worst and cheapest lawyers whose presence will just be a formality, not a real help.
That is already how public defenders work.
seconding this: Ontario, Canada, removed the "duty counsel" obligation from competent working lawyers, & gave that work to lawyers who couldn't compete as real lawyers ( based on both experience & background information given me by other lawyers ), & now you get "duty counsel" which WON'T DO THEIR ACTUAL JOB, so people who SHOULD have all charges dismissed, don't get that, unless we hire a REAL lawyer, because the public-defenders won't do what they're supposed to do.
Idiocy.
& the whole industry of getting people convicted because they couldn't afford a real lawyer .. why should any jurisdiction which has integrity & LivingValues be doing that??
Obviously, just part of selling-out-more-completely, .. bah.
Criminally-irresponsible "management" of our legal-system, in my view.
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