John Oliver reveals some harrowing truths about the state of our public defender system and rewrites the Miranda rights to reflect these facts.
The Miranda warning includes the right to a public defender. It doesn’t include the fact that public defenders are highly overworked and grossly underpaid.
—Posted by Natasha Hakimi Zapata truthdig.com September 14, 2015
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