When you're prepared, you're more confident. When you have a strategy, you're more comfortable. But forget crazy, because real lives are on the line here.
People can go to jail.
I don't know what we have to do to convince the decision makers on Beacon Hill that the amount of money allocated to indigent defense is a disgrace to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. We have to keep trying, keep shouting, keep persuading, because we are, together, a powerful political force. There seems to always be money for the prosecution but never for the defense. The cost of such lopsided fiscal policy may not be readily apparent to our legislators. Please tell them.