Originally Posted by
Yppej
What an odd suggestion.
First, the bias starts earlier in the process with who gets arrested and who DA's decide to charge.
Second, this removes the ability of the defendant to testify on his or her behalf. Even if you have the person testify from behind a screen due to acents and speech patterns in many cases their ethnicity could be accurately guessed.
Third, court paperwork already does not as a general rule indicate race, but it does list names which can be a giveaway. Shaniqua Jones, Carlos Rodriguez, Yen Nguyen or Ernst Schluter?
A better suggestion might be to cap the number of cases public defenders can have at any one time.