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Not that hard to win when you cheat all the time.

It's also not hard to win when you have the taxpayer's money to put as many people on the case as you want, all paid for by you and me (and the defendant) and the defendant is either left to hire his own attorneys at enormous expense, or he is stuck with some hack paid a pittance to defend him.

Here's an idea the level the playing field: for every dollar the prosecution spends on attorneys, investigators, and expert witnesses, the defendant gets one dollar for his attorneys, investigators, and expert witnesses. Expensive? You bet your buns, it's expensive. "But if it saves just one life...." Why shouldn't as much money be spent on the defendant's defense as on his prosecution? If it's that important to throw the guilty in jail, shouldn't we as a society make sure we have the right person, and make sure that innocent citizens shouldn't have to bankrupt themselves when the corrupt and overzealous agents of the state come to the house with the legirons?

Amen, Henrietta, AMEN!

Here's an idea the level the playing field: for every dollar the prosecution spends on attorneys, investigators, and expert witnesses, the defendant gets one dollar for his attorneys, investigators, and expert witnesses. Expensive? You bet your buns, it's expensive. "But if it saves just one life...." Why shouldn't as much money be spent on the defendant's defense as on his prosecution? If it's that important to throw the guilty in jail, shouldn't we as a society make sure we have the right person, and make sure that innocent citizens shouldn't have to bankrupt themselves when the corrupt and overzealous agents of the state come to the house with the legirons?

I agree with you 100%.

Seeing that you are discussing a subject that is in your line of work and experience, and that VRWC_minion is discussing something that ONE OF HIS WORKERS usED To Be or is!, I think I can see why you gave your answer and why he gives his.

VRWC_minion, if you think other posters on this thread have no legal experience, or Federal government experience or a combination of both, and that you are the expert in it, I ask you to re-consider.

I also think that the state should have to reimburse the defendant for all expenses and lost income if anything other than a guilty verdict comes back.

If it's that important to throw the guilty in jail, shouldn't we as a society make sure we have the right person, and make sure that innocent citizens shouldn't have to bankrupt themselves when the corrupt and overzealous agents of the state come to the house with the legirons?

Not to mention the money that would be saved by the taxpayers. I belive the cost to keep one person in jail for a year is what now? $30,000-$40,000? At that figure it better be a guilty SERIOUS offender.