Poor people in the US are already kinda screwed on this front. The public defender's office (or equivalent in some jurisdictions) is generally less prestigious than the public prosecutor's office. It's generally less funded, less well-paid, and less politically advantageous.
You go to court as a criminal defendant, there's a good chance you're facing an, ambitious prosecutor, who's looking to leverage their conviction rate into high political office. A prosecutor who is being well-paid, and whose office is receiving lots of funding, to indulge and enable that ambition.
And if you're too poor to afford a good lawyer of your own, you're probably being defended by a public defender who may mean well, but is woefully over-worked, and woefully underpaid. They may be a public defender because they lack the skill, experience, or drive to be a good lawyer making "good lawyer money" somewhere other than the public defender's office.
More and more, I've come to think that if we want to do something about the excesses and misconduct of public prosecutors, especially the unconscionable rise of the plea deal in lieu of trial, we need to start by elevating the public defender's office. We need to make that office a place where ambitious legal minds go, to get paid what they are worth, to get political acclaim for their efforts.
And I'd add public school educators to that list. )