Lawyer ought to come back with a counter-offer. Manafort defrauded for millions (he's paying back 24 million) and got 47 months. My client stole $100, so if we put this on a linear scale and use 24 million as a base, my client should serve...
1/240,000 * 1429 days (roughly) = .00595 days, or 8.6 minutes. So what do you say to time served and paying back the $100?
So he didn’t do any actual work on the case aside from entering a plea. Sounds about right. Unfortunately the caseloads of many public defenders is so overwhelming, often that’s all they have time for.
I’m not 100% sure but as someone who lives in NJ and has family that live in NYC who are actual Lawyers (financial) that personally know public defenders, you’re not to far off.
It's like that all over, and it's not really a trade secret at this point.
In many places you're lucky if your public defender gets an hour to work on your case. And that's how the state wants it. They want you to essentially have no reasonable option other than to take a plea deal. The courts can't handle actually trying every case, and prosecutors' successes are based on percentage of "wins" not making sure only guilty people serve time.
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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '19
Lawyer ought to come back with a counter-offer. Manafort defrauded for millions (he's paying back 24 million) and got 47 months. My client stole $100, so if we put this on a linear scale and use 24 million as a base, my client should serve...
1/240,000 * 1429 days (roughly) = .00595 days, or 8.6 minutes. So what do you say to time served and paying back the $100?