Very few cases see a jury these days. The typical tactic for a prosecutor is to pile up charges until the defendant is facing many, many, many years of jail tim

Very few cases see a jury these days. The typical tactic for a prosecutor is to pile up charges until the defendant is facing many, many, many years of jail time then once the consequences of going to trial is made abundantly clear to the defendant, i.e. your entire life could be thrown down into a dark hole and never again will you see daylight again as a free person, the prosecutor will then dangle a plea bargain of only a 'few years' on 'lesser' charges. It's not difficult to understand why there are now so few jury trials. Add in the fact that bail can be denied or expensive, that jury trials can drag on for years in appeals, that being seen as adversarial often puts you in a bad light if/when you are sentenced, or that judges can at times utterly disregard the jury, the entire 'legal' process as it is practiced today serves no one justly and is built solely to empower the government and the powerful at the expense of all others.