“The quality of representation often matters in criminal cases, and money is often crucial in determining the quality of representation” (Chemerinsky 2680). Money matters in criminal cases; particularly when the public defender's office receives less than half the annual budget of what the district attorney's office receives (Houppert 156). This huge discrepancy in pay is a big problem when it comes to providing relevant investigation: research, paying investigators, DNA testing, fingerprint samples, and spending time with clients. In Chasing Gideon, author Karen Houppert writes about Douglas Anderson, a public defender, who admitted that he did not have enough funds to hire an investigator on over 240 cases in one year (19). Also, Travis Williams in the award-winning documentary Gideon's Army, tricks the district attorney's office into paying for a fingerprint test in one of his cases because his office couldn't afford it. Remember: less money equals fewer public defenders, fewer public defenders equals huge caseloads, huge caseloads equals unfair trials, unfair trials equals more constitutional violations; furthermore, a job with low pay and heavy workloads would attract incompetent people to fill those positions, because not many other people would want the job (Chemerinsky 2683). It's easy to see why the public defender's office works at such a disadvantage compared to the district attorney's office – profit from