WHEN JUSTICE COMMITS CRIME: PART 4
Meeting your counsel often comes after money, liberty, and leverage are gone—leaving defense shaped by depletion, not preparation.
Meeting your counsel often comes after money, liberty, and leverage are gone—leaving defense shaped by depletion, not preparation.
In Indiana, bail does not restore liberty. It redirects defendants into a system of detention, supervision, and fees that drains defense funds before guilt is ever adjudicated.
Justice rarely collapses in one dramatic moment. It erodes quietly—behind plea agreements, qualified immunity, conflicted funding, and a system that punishes resistance more than wrongdoing.