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The Right to An Attorney
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And in fact, the right to an attorney is written into the Constitution's sixth amendment. Today on the show: how public defenders became the backbone of our criminal legal system, and what might need to change for them to truly serve everyone. Sara Mayeux, law and history professor at Vanderbilt University and author of Free Justice: A History of the Public Defender in Twentieth Century America