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> I bet that if it were illegal to detain people for more than some limited amount of time before a hearing, and a few nice and gruesome murderers walked voters
by jschwartzi 11y ago
> I bet that if it were illegal to detain people for more than some limited amount of time before a hearing, and a few nice and gruesome murderers walked voters would get their priorities straight.
They would, but it would be less of a "we need to get these murderers to trial faster" and more of a "we need to relax the rules requiring a speedy trial but only for murderers."
- mentat 11y agoExcept the whole point is that you don't know they're murders until the conclusion of the trial. Your phrasing shows the bias that's problematic.