A hint at things to come

I'll let this story speak for itself.

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Two Manatee County sheriff's deputies spent the past five months targeting the upper hierarchy of the county's largest street gang, hoping to strike a fatal blow to the group....
But a new law meant to save the state $70 million could jeopardize the prosecution of some of the alleged gang members caught in the sweep. Few lawyers will take the state's offer of $2,000 to defend the suspects in a case likely to drag on for months.

And without defense lawyers, the case will go nowhere, criminal justice leaders say....
Walt Smith, the court administrator for the judicial circuit that includes Manatee and Sarasota counties, even took a rare step and called lawyers asking them to take on the complex case.

"So far there are no takers," Smith told the area's top justice leaders at a meeting last week.

Under the old law, state payment for defense lawyers was not lavish. They could get $60 to $75 an hour, plus compensation for expenses....
In Manatee County, there are only five lawyers left who will take the public defense cases. Those lawyers were assigned to the case, but there is one defendant who still does not have a lawyer and three yet to be arrested, Smith said.

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