&gt;<i>We&#x27;ve long required the state to provide an attorney to those that cannot afford one. It may now be necessary for the state to provide scientists to those that cannot afford them as well.</i><p>Well, the state provided poor people bottom of the barrel attorneys, who didn&#x27;t care much about the defendants (and had not much of a financial motive to), and urged them to plea so that they can move ahead, in a hell of a lot of cases.<p>So, this &quot;state scientist&quot; process to exist, it should be really to work better than that if it&#x27;s to do any good.