• @MiddleWeighOP
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    21 year ago

    This is so true. I had a public defender. They did literally nothing, and would only have done so if I had done all the leg work and brought my case to them. If you don’t have a good paid lawyer, your getting smoked. The cops can say absolutely anything in the report and in court and your guilty until proven innocent unless you’ve got a paid lawyer. Plea deals all day. It’s messed up. I even had the strange inclination that my PD just straight up worked for the judge tbh. Wouldn’t surprise me.

    Tbf I’ve had more luck in blue cities with PDs. In rural red areas, forget it.

    Too much contact with the legal system in my life. But now that it’s behind me, I feel pretty strongly about removing any unnecessary police contact points, like this law, because I’ve seen good people get sailed down the river on some b.s.

    This just seems ripe for corruption and misuse.

    The cops can now just pull anyone over from these states just because of your plates. If they don’t like the cut of your jib, your gonna get harassed.