I always hear about rich people hiring expensive lawyers to escape punishments. How do they do that, and what stops more accessible lawyers from achieving the same result?
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If you’re someone who can’t afford your own lawyer, you would be given a public defender, who would probably have multiple different cases they have to deal with and might only have time to skim through your case file.
Meanwhile if you’re a super wealthy person, you can hire not just one lawyer but a whole team of lawyers to pour through every word of your file and nitpick every single detail. And with your money, you might even be able to afford your own private investigators to help with your case. Like finding witnesses, getting alibis, gathering evidence that the police might not have time to look through. That kind of thing.
And let’s say the rich person is guilty, what their lawyers can do then is stall. Basically find everyway to drag the case on for as long as possible, maybe hoping that witnesses might change their minds, evidence might be lost, or heck, maybe laws might have changed so the crime you commited isn’t classified as serious as it was before. And these lawyers would also find tons of loopholes and the smallest of technicalities they can use to argue away charges.
Also let’s not forget, intimidation and bribery. Like let’s not pretend these kinds of corruption never happen, because they do. If you’re really super wealthy, you might have connections you can use, strings you can pull, favors you can call to try and get away with just a slap on the wrist or maybe probation at worse.
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