Posted on 12/28/2014 7:53:44 PM PST by Olog-hai
Tommy Vaughn knows his clients may be distrustful when a court appoints him to handle their case. Without enough money to hire their own lawyer, defendants are often suspicious that court-appointed attorneys will provide a poor defense or just try to coerce a quick guilty plea.
“I kind of assume that’s what they’re thinking when I first meet them,” said Vaughn, who has worked as a defense attorney in Texas for 2½ years.
The issue of trust has long been part of a larger discussion about the quality of indigent defense in the U.S. Now, the Central Texas county where Vaughn works will be the first in the country to give these individuals the ability to choose their own attorneys at the government’s expense.
It’s part of a pilot program in Comal County that could determine whether the idea could be adopted in other jurisdictions and provide a new wrinkle to how the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments are exercised. …
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INDIGENT. Smells like an obfuscating euphemism for “Illegal Alien”. More gov’t BS to hide their blowing taxpayer money defending border jumpers.
They just lost this tax payer’s tourist dollar.
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