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When I was a prosecutor, defendants would sometimes plead guilty on their first court appearance. No attorney. No review of the evidence. No questions asked. Some of those cases should never have survived a motion to suppress. Some of the charges were legally unsupportable. Some of those people qualified for programs that would have kept a conviction off their record entirely. They just didn't know. And nobody on the other side of the table was going to tell them. I'm on the