Attorney Jerome Buting says most criminal defendants in America are ‘too poor to pay for a defence lawyer’ and aspects of Steven Avery’s fable are not unusualAs shocking as Steven Avery’s case is to Netflix viewers,his wrongful imprisonment for 18 years is not an isolated incident in the troubled US criminal justice system.[br]Avery’s defence attorneys Dean Strang and Jerome Buting say there are systemic weaknesses in the system and that wrongful convictions are widespread, particularly among the poor.
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Source: theguardian.com