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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the state only has so many resources. This one trial is one of many to the DA/whatever. Likewise defense attorneys (even private ones) have many cases to juggle.
If you are rich enough you can hire an army of defense attorneys who are focused on ONLY your case and they can hire an army of detectives to comb through every single possible alibi and dig through the history of each witness to find any credibility concern, then hire an army of expert witnesses who will argue that the footprint could have been from someone else (or whatever).
Essentially it is the ‘kicking up dirt’ defense to confuse the jury into having reasonable doubt
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