Absolutely. Even if a presumption against detention applies to your charges, the prosecution may want to argue in favor of your detention. You need an experienced attorney who will bring all the evidence in support of your release to the court’s attention. You are entitled to appointed counsel at every stage of the proceeding. The Public Defender’s Office is staffed with quality lawyers. The thing that a Public Defender cannot provide to you, due to the sheer number of cases that they have, is personalized attention to your case. The detention hearing is a crucial stage of your defense because that hearing will determine whether you can continue to live a normal life while defending the charges against you on the outside, free, or spend that time in jail without having been convicted of anything.