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What Happens When You Have Large Criminal Rap Sheets?
"We live in a country where you are entitled to a trial," he says. "Our cash bail system, pretrial detention, is not supposed to be used to bypass that entire process." The public defender's office represents homeless people and mentally ill people who often have long rap sheets but don't get their day in court because they're targeted by authorities for being poor or having mental illness. He argues recidivism is an attack on opponents of the criminal system.
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