It is essential to have counsel representing these indigent defendants who are skilled enough to pit themselves against astute prosecutors. To give you an illustration of how haphazard and how inadequate that service is. let me give you a case from my own experience. When I first got out of law school I went to old Judge Chatfield in Brooklyn and I said that I wanted a case. In a few days he assigned me a case. Well. I did not know much about the law. I was quite inexperienced. I was assigned an immigration case. The defendant was a lowly Italian. I was seated at the table with this Italian defendant of mine. on one side.
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