I think once someone is charged they are then given lawyer through legal aid for formal interviews and and trials, but it is unlikely they would have prior to being charged.
JMO :beagle::detective:
In a missing child's case in Florida, the father refused to go in to be interviewed by LE after his daughter disappeared and he immediately hired a lawyer. Don't know if the lawyers worked pro bono, but in this case the father collected a large amount of money through donations from the public and the mother started a Foundation and hired her own PI.
The family sold t-shirts with the child's face, name and contact information on it and had fund-raising events. The mother came under fire for not reporting the money she received.
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KIM PICAZIO: Well I’ll tell you, that when I was on this case, and I had said this on the News many a times, that Ronald was refusing to go into Law Enforcement, he wouldn’t go in to cooperate with regard to his child, he would not go in, and neither would Misty, so he had lawyered up very early, even before we even knew publicly that there were criminal lawyers involved. There were, and we were getting lots of frustrating comments etc by Law Enforcement because if no one talks in Florida and in all of the States, you cannot just bring someone in by the hair, and force them to undergo interrogation, it is not how it works in the Unites States. So, unless they had something to charge him with, they could not bring him in and force him to talk; and he didn’t, which was very telling to everybody watching this case. Why isn’t this guy helping find his child? Why isn’t he helping?
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