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"Clog the docket"? Why isn't the court system appropriately scaled to give each defendant their Sixth Amendment right to a fair trial? Because fuck them, that's
by ggg9990 8y ago
"Clog the docket"? Why isn't the court system appropriately scaled to give each defendant their Sixth Amendment right to a fair trial? Because fuck them, that's why.
- csa 8y agoBecause many elected officials and many voters aggressively try to cut the budget for the judiciary. As I said elsewhere, if you don't like the system, please call your local, state, and federal representatives and request that they support more funding for the judiciary. Every case going to trial would cost an incredibly unreal amount of money -- there needs to be some streamlining somewhere, and the question is where and how.
- ggg9990 8y agoIf every case going to trial would cost an unreal amount of money, then the solution is to either reduce everyone's Constitutional rights, or do things differently, not browbeat defendants into a Sophie's Choice between their rights and a 10x-disproportionate jail term.
- kwhitefoot 8y ago> Every case going to trial would cost an incredibly unreal amount of money There are other ways of avoiding the trial than threatening the accused. Also there are countries that don't seem to have this problem. Perhaps a look outside the US might suggest some alternative ways of behaving that might be used.