The right to counsel is 'tenuous' in a small Mississippi justice court in Yalobusha County, Mississippi, where two judges appointed lawyers for felony defendants in only 20% of the cases opened in 2022.
Experts estimate that the national rate of lawyer appointments is 80% in felony cases, at some point in the legal process, according to the article by the Marshall Project.
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