>>Do all defendants not have the right to an attorney in criminal cases?
In theory yes, but in most cases that will be a overworked lawyer that has 100's or 1000's of other active cases, and will not spend time other than negotiation the best deal.
Even if you happen to get a good public defender that has the ability to devote lots of time to your individual case, they would have no budget to hire an expert witness to present the vulnerabilities in the Cell-bright software to a jury
Your best bet would be if the ACLU or EFF took an interest in your case, but they take on very few cases relatively speaking and tend to focus on precedent setting cases, or cases that have high public interest (or can be made to have high public interest)
>Or maybe the attorneys available to those who can't afford are just crap in general?
In some cases they are incompetent, however in most cases they are just underfunded and massively over worked. In most jurisdictions the public defenders office is funded is 1/10 or less of what the prosecutors office is funded at.
In theory yes, but in most cases that will be a overworked lawyer that has 100's or 1000's of other active cases, and will not spend time other than negotiation the best deal.
Even if you happen to get a good public defender that has the ability to devote lots of time to your individual case, they would have no budget to hire an expert witness to present the vulnerabilities in the Cell-bright software to a jury
Your best bet would be if the ACLU or EFF took an interest in your case, but they take on very few cases relatively speaking and tend to focus on precedent setting cases, or cases that have high public interest (or can be made to have high public interest)
>Or maybe the attorneys available to those who can't afford are just crap in general?
In some cases they are incompetent, however in most cases they are just underfunded and massively over worked. In most jurisdictions the public defenders office is funded is 1/10 or less of what the prosecutors office is funded at.