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...this and other trials of the rich and famous -- the Menendez brothers, Claus von Bulow, William Kennedy Smith -- left the general impression that our criminal justice system routinely allows defendants a thorough and aggressive defense, in which no fact goes unchallenged or theory unexplored. In fact, the report that Spangenburg co-authored for the A.B.A. concluded that the indigent defense system was in "crisis" -- that far too many people are being tried, convicted and sentenced without even the rudimentary legal representation guaranteed by the Constitution. "There are two criminal justice systems in this country," says Paul Petterson, indigent defense coordinator...
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