You Have The Right To An Attorney, But You'll Just Have To Pay For One Yourself, You Crackhead.

MayorBob.

Posted to Legal on Thu Apr 24, 2008 at 06:48:18 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.

Anyone who's seen any crime dramas knows that criminal suspects have the right to an attorney and if you can't afford one, the government has to provide you with one.  But those rights end once you've been convicted and sentenced for a crime, unless you can find a lenient judge.  This is the dilemma facing a number of federal prisoners, largely poor and uneducated people in jail for crack offenses, who are finding it almost impossible to get the legal help they need to deal with their appeals.

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