My nephew was recently ticketed for stepping outside of a bar in Detroit with a drink. Now, he wasn't the only one. Apparently, there was a group of them [[23ish) doing the same thing and he and a few others were ticketed when another handful were not. He is going to court next week and he wants to hire an attorney. I feel bad for him as he just graduated from nursing school and testing for med. school and quite frankly can't afford to pay an attorney.

My question is does he really need to get an attorney? In my opinion, I think the men in blue have more important things to do in the city then hand out tickets for something like this....maybe a "you can't have that out here" type warning. Any thoughts?