> so really, it doesn't matter how much lawyers cost I really advise you to read up on some of the literature about plea deals; there are very few people who t

> so really, it doesn't matter how much lawyers cost I really advise you to read up on some of the literature about plea deals; there are very few people who think that they are something we should have at the scale that we have them, or something that we should have “as long as” we have jury trials. The prevalence of plea deals in the American criminal justice system is primarily due to the fact that there are simply too many crimes for our courts and public defenders to handle promptly (an incentive for prosecutors) and that legal representation is so expensive (an incentive for defendants, and also for shady prosecutors). Here’s a blog post on the ACLU’s website about it: https://www.aclu.org/blog/mass-incarceration/its-not-just-prosecutorial-leverage-thats-eroding-our-justice-system https://www.aclu.org/blog/mass-incarceration/its-not-just-pr...