An opposing view is we don't have fair trials due to the expense of representation and plea bargaining. Possibly op was innocent but too poor and risk adverse

An opposing view is we don't have fair trials due to the expense of representation and plea bargaining. Possibly op was innocent but too poor and risk adverse to try and fight the harder charge, so op plead for a lesser charge. Possibly op gunned down the farmer and plead to a lesser charge. We don't have fair trials so we'll never know for certain what happened. If we had fair trials, the general public would feel less need to be judge jury and executioner. But we don't, so its just added responsibility for a hiring manager. "We, as a society, decided long ago" Who's this 'we', not me, that's for sure. Its not my failed system.