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They would be contesting an illegal arrest or search. But moreso, they wouldn't be. Because public defenders have many times as many cases than they have time to work on, and so our criminal justice system is largely a plea bargain factory for incarcerating poor people who can't actually afford to defend themselves in a fair trial. And because poor people can't afford attorneys to press civil suits, so there's no one else to do it.I'll be sure to remember this post the next time you comment about people on welfare, or someone of a different race or religion than you. Since you aren't those people, you have no basis to make claims about them.Or maybe we have objective facts, studies, and statistics about things and the plural of anecdote is never data. So regardless of what you feel is correct based on your own experiences, they have nothing to do with the greater world around you.
Applies to the middle class as well. Most people of middle class means can't afford to defend themselves at trial either.