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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A public defender is handling ~20-30 cases at at time. They maybe have a paralegal working under them to help out. But that case load and the financial resources available limits the ability to fully research, prepare, etc.. for each case. You can’t go 100% all in on one case when you have to keep the other 29 going forward as well. Public defenders are often younger lawyers at the early end of their career (ie: less trial experience and less connections)
If you hire a major legal firm you may be hiring a big name in the legal community who is influential and is connected well to people in the attorney general’s office, judges, and likely sheriff’s. You will likely be getting a team of lawyers with multiple people dedicated to researching your case. The lawyer arguing your case during the trial is also likely to be much more experienced in that regard, and honestly probably better at it than the prosecutor they are going up against. And with all of these resources they are going to be able to put much more pressure into an out of court settlement (aka financial that an rich person can cover) to avoid jail time
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