How would you respond: There are some disadvantages to being appointed an attorney. Appointed attorneys are usually overloaded with casework unlike a...

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There are some disadvantages to being appointed an attorney. Appointed attorneys are usually overloaded with casework unlike a private attorney. Assigned counsel is normally an attorney who is volunteering or one who is a practicing attorney, but can be a public defender as well (Neubauer, 2017). Ad hoc is an appointment method where the court will appoint an attorney at random (Neubauer, 2017). When the attorneys are appointed a client and have so much work, they normally don't focus a lot of time on the client. They dispose of these types of cases quickly in order to go back and focus on paying clients. There are advantages to appointed attorneys. They are free to indigent defendants, or those who cannot afford them. Most of the attorneys under the ad hoc method are appointed randomly, but recently the courts have been improving their system and added specialized lawyers to handle particular cases (Neubauer, 2017). There are good things and bad things about appointed attorneys. The advantages outweigh the bad. If there were no appointed attorneys, over half of the clients needing lawyers would be on their own. All of the appointed lawyers have the proper schooling and training needed to help their clients. If appointed attorneys were ever removed from the system who knows what would happen to the courts.
Indigent defendants are at a major disadvantage by being represented by court appointed attorneys compared to a privately retained attorney because there are so many people that simple can not afford a private lawyer and the caseloads on court appointed attorneys are so over exasperated that they can't give there all (most the time) versus a privately retained attorney is able to take the time to sit down and throughly review the case and not (most of the time) already have a preconceived notion that they are guilty because they don't have as many backed to back cases. However, with that being said public defenders are a very wonderful thing to have so that at least an indigent defendant will have someone representing him per the law. Some advantages that a defendant would have if they were to go the route of a public defender are that they will have a vast knowledge of similar cases and hopefully use that knowledge to the advantage of the defendants.