This created a simple problem and a complicated one. The simple one is
that many appointed lawyers are not paid enough to allow them to do
their jobs. The solution to that problem is money.
The complicated problem is that the Gideon decision created
attorney-client relationships barely worthy of the name, between lawyers
with conflicting incentives and clients without choices. Now a judge in
Washington State and a county in Texas are trying to address that
deeper problem in ways that have never been tried in the United States.
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