The Indeterminacy of the Right to an Attorney

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Having an attorney actually makes a difference in your sentencing or in your conviction rates. He ends up citing more evidence that it does make a difference than that it doesn't. But as a whole having this right might be on the whole harmful for poor and black communities even if it is helpful in a particular case for an individual.

Poor and black defendants have more legal rights than ever, but that didn't stop mass incarceration. Why is that? We talk about a paper by Paul Butler called "Poor People Lose: Gideon and the Critique of Rights." Plus, we answer the question that’s on everyone’s mind: how to live as an anti-natalist. And Tamler is appalled to discover David's anti-natalist leanings.