Comments about ‘Fair trial integral to American values’

Well, shame on us Utahns for not sharing Darcy's overwhelming concern for under-funded public defenders. That a lawyer would be whining for more tax money to hire more public defender lawyers is no surprise. That most Utahns don't share Darcy's urgency about this this, or feel like worrying that there aren't enough public defenders should also be no surprise. Must of us do not share the ACLU's agenda, nor its apparent belief that every criminal defendant is really innocent, and just needs a good shyster lawyer to so convince a judge and or jury.

This writer does make a valid point by stating that every party in a trial deserves a fair trial. However, the writer complete ignores the face that the prosecution deserves a fair trial too.

The Supreme Court has continued to create rights for defendants out of thin air. These rights have no basis in the Constitution, and this has created a system that is overwhelmingly biased in favor of defendants. It is the prosecution that needs greater funding to seek after justice, not defense attorneys to seek after avoidance of responsibility.

I fully agree with the author. I think our justice system is sick. Not only does every guilty, white man who can afford it...go free, we incarcerate many innocent men purely because of their inability to defend themselves financially and otherwise against a deeply corrupted system.
The right to a fair trial is not a gray area. The sixth amendment is clear. We must allocate proper funding to employ new resources and technologies, not just legitimate, capable defenders, to insure those accused are actually proven guilty (or innocent) through a fair trial, not simply a trial that runs it's course because society and the legal machine care little about the actual people involved.

Our justice system is the best that money can buy!
Lets continue to pretend we have a fair system, here the rich, and the poor are equal.
If I was rich,and I had the money,I would hire one of the public defenders, they are probably the best trial attorneys you will find.
Give them the money to do it right, and they will make you innocent every time.