This makes for injustice: only wealthy defendants can afford the experts necessary to mount an abuse defense.

He considers civil trials potentially corrective of a criminal system that gives too many safeguards to wealthy defendants.

It would have retained the system allowing injured people to collect from the wealthiest defendant.

When asked about the ability of wealthy defendants to hire prominent lawyers, No.188 said: "That's the way our system works.

What does all this effort produce in the end for a wealthy defendant like Mr. Simpson?

Plaintiffs have greater access to the courts and are given greater bargaining power when facing large corporations or other wealthy defendants.

Hertz is merely a wealthy defendant that rents cars; the city owns most of the sidewalks, highways and roads.

But he described the ruling as an example of how a prosecutor's resources could swamp those of all but the wealthiest defendants.

It also promotes fairness by narrowing the inequality between wealthy defendants and poor ones, who are less likely to know what their legal rights are.

Instead, the plaintiff targets the nearest marginally related large corporation or wealthy defendant, often with a weak accusation of negligence.