In Jail Without a Lawyer: How a Texas Town Fails Poor Defendants

Re:In Jail Without a Lawyer: How a Texas Town Fails Poor Def... by yowzadave on Wednesday March 26, 2025 @12:12PM (#43483754)

Can you point to any actual real-world cases where something like this has happened? It sounds like a movie concept; we're letting real-world policy be determined by a fantasy people have about a lone gun enthusiast killing a bunch of drug cartel members?

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Re:In Jail Without a Lawyer: How a Texas Town Fails Poor Def... by fragmede on Wednesday March 26, 2025 @12:16PM (#43483816)

Nope! I agree it's something out of a movie, but real world people do actually have such arsenals. I'm not making a comment on policy, just that such individuals exist.

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Re:In Jail Without a Lawyer: How a Texas Town Fails Poor Def... by ty6853 on Wednesday March 26, 2025 @12:53PM (#43484205)

Warsaw ghetto uprising bought some people a few extra days (and a couple women their lives spared), which is better than nothing.

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Re:In Jail Without a Lawyer: How a Texas Town Fails Poor Def... by marcus_holmes on Sunday March 30, 2025 @09:01PM (#43529533)

I really hope your example remains a straw man argument, and not something that Americans are going to have to face up to in the next few years.

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