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> Unfortunately that is now no longer affordable, tough luck.

When has this ever been affordable?

Can you craft a legal system where everyone receives at least the minimal amount of legal expertise that they need inexpensively?

Either way if you prefer semantics then even going through the expensive legal process will never verify the fact of whether Aaron broke the law. It will only verify whether or not a jury unanimously agreed that the prosecution appeared to have proven beyond a reasonable doubt that Aaron broke the law.

Given that the law (CFAA) is fairly unjust in this case, and deliberately so, I don't see why it's a stretch to claim that Aaron "broke the law", it was intentionally written to be easy to prove charges written against it!



> Can you craft a legal system where everyone receives at least the minimal amount of legal expertise that they need inexpensively?

Yes, we have exactly that here.


A Napoleonic-code type of civil law system, I'm assuming?

Because the common-law system that the U.S. uses is much more complex, which increases the complexity for the lawyers, which increases the cost of the lawyers/judges/etc. However rich a few of the lawyers may be, most struggle through and don't pay off their student loans until comparatively late.

But over there the lawyers are inexpensive (or simply unnecessary)? Because if that's the case it sounds like the issue is already solved, simply move to where you live.

If the lawyers are expensive, but not for their clients, it simply means that someone else is footing the bill, which has analogs within the U.S. (public defenders) but most who can pay choose to forgo public defenders (assuming the state even provides that option).




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