Bianca Jagger: A Day of Shame for the State of Georgia and the Justice System: "In all legal actions in the USA our judicial system is not measuring up. If you are poor you do not get justice in our system unless by sheer chance. One must 'buy' justice in the courts of the United States. If you are Black or Hispanic it costs you more to 'buy' it than if you were White. Public Defenders Offices are under funded compared to the amount of resource the District Attorneys Office has at it's disposal and few Public Defenders are interested in irritating the Trial Judge by actually putting up a meaningful defense. In Civil Courts the poor can only prevail if they have a case which will generate enough money for an attorney to take it on 'spec' (for a percentage of the award). Many of us Georgians are not only aware of this but are trying to change it, for all the States not just Georgia. We can't begin to make a start here, or anywhere else, till we rid ourselves of our hypocritical office holders who spout the Constitution out of one side of their mouths and Christianity out the other without caring one bit about either."
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