• schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de
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    12 hours ago

    Should that not be the job of a defense attorney? Surely the defendant knew he didn’t commit that crime; so how come the defendant didn’t look through the documents with his attorney and go “wait, this isn’t right”? If not even the defense is competently representing its own interests, no wonder things like this happen.

    • tal@lemmy.today
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      10 hours ago

      That’s a job, but it’d be nice to not have a single point of failure. Multiple safeguards reduces the chance of overall failure.