Louisiana's public defender's office is largely nonexistent so poor people just plead guilty

Apparently you don’t, in reality, have a right to a public defender so the alternatives seems to be to plead guilty or rot in jail for a trial that is indefinitely postponed. That is the background to my suggestion that you might want to defend yourself. You won’t be able to do it properly, it will be extremely unfair, but still, the alternatives aren’t exactly better. If you are lucky the jury might even feel sympathy.

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