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Originally Posted by arock10
97% of fed cases don't make it to court due to plea bargains taken because the alternative is extremely long sentences. Due process has been dead for a while
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you do realize a plea bargain is the defendant pleading guilty right?
Guilty pleas last year resolved 97% of all federal cases that the Justice Department prosecuted to a conclusion.
The shrinking number of federal criminal defendants choosing to go to trial is "extraordinarily troubling," said Nancy Gertner, a former federal judge appointed by President Bill Clinton and now a professor at Harvard Law School. Many basic protections guaranteed by the Bill of Rights and subsequent federal court decisions "are geared to a trial situation....."
it's unfortunate you think it's dead when it's the keystone of our judicial system. you don't get due process if you CHOOSE to plead guilty.
and that's exactly my point in bringing up due process in this thread. this individual is choosing to use the system that is afforded to all of us in the bill of rights. for people here to disagree with that is tantamount to choosing to give up personal rights.