NM gun case shows government treats citizens differently from its own (cont'd.)

That is why the Reeses must be afforded the opportunity to defend their presumption of innocence—something they cannot do if their ability to pay for legal services is taken from them by the same people prosecuting them. Combine this with the judge forbidding them to be represented by one counsel, and a denial of bail designed to keep them apart, destroy their morale and resolve, as well as their ability to coordinate a defense and lean on each other for emotional and intellectual support, and the appearance is that the leviathan state is crushing them not in the name of justice, but to break them and make them surrender, regardless of the truth. [More]

Today's Gun Rights Examiner report notes a fight is hardly fair when one side is blindfolded and hogtied and the other has sledge hammers.