That is interesting. When I did jury service, the defence lawyer was one who defended the defendants who couldn't afford it (er... I'm sure there's a better way of saying it than 'defended the defendants' but I don't know all the legal terminology!) but I didn't know they did that in America. I suppose because American people don't get welfare the way they do in the UK (at least from my understanding from reading Nickel and Dimed and its British counterpart Hard Work) so I assumed everyone had to pay for everything whether they could afford it or not.
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Date: 2008-09-06 06:10 pm (UTC)