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Re:Detroit’s Indigent Defense System Fails Poor Defendants by wcunning on Thursday August 01, 2019 @04:47PM (#20588191)
This is, so far as I can tell from following legal news, very very very common[0].

[0] Examples: https://twitter.com/Popehat/status/1090313239995400192

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Re:Detroit’s Indigent Defense System Fails Poor Defendants by mehrdadn on Thursday August 01, 2019 @04:53PM (#20588248)
I'll take a look at them, but given the sheer number of cases judges see across the country every day, and the fact that such Twitter user "Dumb(Stupid}Hat" would probably not post the ones that are doing their jobs ethically and professionally, I don't see how this implies this is very very very common.
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Re:Detroit’s Indigent Defense System Fails Poor Defendants by mieseratte on Friday August 02, 2019 @10:25AM (#20593172)
> and the fact that such Twitter user "Dumb(Stupid}Hat"

"Popehat" is a well known attorney, Ken White[0]. If he felt something was indicative, I would certainly believe him.

With that said, I don't know that he's trying to say that it is indicative so much as highlight interesting war stories.

https://brownwhitelaw.com/kenneth-p-white/

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