(11-25-2021, 02:05 PM)homebiscuit Wrote:

(11-25-2021, 05:59 AM)The Real Marty Wrote: Sure, if you have the money.   A lawyer like he had would charge an hourly rate of probably $500 to $800.  Now think of a mock trial, with multiple lawyers on each side, plus someone playing the judge, plus two mock juries, meaning a couple of dozen people, a jury consultant, etc.  You're talking probably $5,000 to $10,000 per hour.  

That's just for the mock trial.  Then you have the real trial.  Add it all up, and the whole thing could cost him a couple of million dollars in legal fees.  

All of which goes to show why our jails are full of poor people.

And the fact that poor people commit a majority of crimes. If you can't pay the dime, don't do the crime.