08-09-2016, 07:41 AM
(08-08-2016, 11:27 PM)HarleyDog Wrote: Really? So how many innocent people have served time with this lack of confidence you call normal? Think about that for awhile. Innocent people will accept plea deals because they fear the alternative. You accept this? Granted, the same bs thinking gets guilty people reduced charges too, which is just as bad! I think our judicial system is the best in the world. However, it's still not great.
So what is the alternative? If you get rid of plea deals you have to bring them all to trial. The legal system is already backed up in a lot of places, this would only make it worse. It could make it get to the point where people are spending weeks waiting for a trial, or even a bail hearing, for something only to be found innocent. Or they could be found guilty for something that would have normally been only a couple of days in county, instead they spent a month. And all of this would also contribute to our already overburdened (and corrupt) prison system.
Not to offload on you, just a lot to consider, here.
"A great democracy has got to be progressive, or it will soon cease to be either great or a democracy..." - TR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
