IS JUSTICE A COMMODITY? The topic of an unequal, almost a binary system of justice for those able to afford private counsel and those who cannot, is not a new subject. The fact that nationwide, almost 75% of inmates in state prisons, and 58% of defendendants sentenced to prison in the Harris County court system relied on a publicly provided attorney warrants further inquiry. Is justice a commodity? If not, the disparity is so extreme that it …showed first 75 words of 1471 total…

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