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I think of the legal system in the US. It's easy to find statements about how the entire legal system would collapse if people stopped taking plea bargains beca
by crooked-v 28d ago
I think of the legal system in the US. It's easy to find statements about how the entire legal system would collapse if people stopped taking plea bargains because nothing is actually funded or operated in a way that actually guarantees the right to trial in any practical way.
- wmf 28d agoI wonder if the system would actually collapse or people would just sit in jail for 10 years.
- rcxdude 28d agoThe US has things like the right to a speedy trial.
- fhdkweig 28d agoSupposedly, there is a right to a speedy trial, and supposedly, if it is violated, they have to let you go without a trial. Don't know if it is really tested often.
- AnimalMuppet 28d agoThe practical legal definition of "speedy" might not match peoples' intuitive definition.
- idle_zealot 28d agoWe would run out of room in jails, hastily contract out construction for rapid expansion, and then people would die en masse in the shoddy camps the contractors deliver.