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Indigent defense does not generate political leverage. Defendants are not a powerful constituency. Funding defense does not produce headlines or electoral advantage.
For most people charged with a crime, constitutional protection exists only on paper. In courtrooms, it is delayed, diluted, or functionally denied, not because the Constitution changed, but because political priorities did.
This is not a budgetary oversight.
It is a constitutional failure.
The Michigan Attorney Discipline Board has ordered a second two-year suspension of John Lawrence McDonough (P68576) of Three Rivers, Michigan, following a criminal conviction…