Chicago Tribune
Chicago Sun-Times columnist and editorial board member Neil Steinberg showed up in court for his domestic battery case Thursday with a public defender. “Since there was a chance, or at least I harbored the chance, that it might be dismissed, I didn’t want to spend the 750 bucks” on a private attorney, said Steinberg. The judge told the journalist that public defenders only represent indigent people who can’t afford attorneys and asked the lawyer to withdraw from the case, which she did immediately.
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Judge to Sun-Times’ Steinberg: No public defender for you!
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