Justice Antonin Scalia cannot imagine why anyone prepared to plead guilty in court should have to be advised that it would be wise to talk first to a lawyer.
"We want to encourage people to confess," he said during oral arguments last week. "Why do we want to encourage them to hire a lawyer so they will get off on an irrelevancy?"
Another sign that the Justices have little real world experience - particularly no significant real experience in the actual working of our justice system on the street and in the trial courts.
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