The courtroom of the Provincial Court of Madrid was packed that Tuesday in March when Carmen Reyes entered without a lawyer, accompanied only by her 12-year-old son, Diego. On the other side of the courtroom, seated with three lawyers in expensive suits, was Eduardo Mendoza, a millionaire construction magnate from one of Spain’s most powerful families, the man who had accused her of stealing a valuable family ring worth €300,000. Carmen, a 42-year-old Ecuadorian woman who had worked as a domestic servant for the Mendozas for eight years, couldn’t even afford a decent public defender.
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