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Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
While plea bargaining has always been an enterprise of dubious morality, I think it's shameful that we condition departure from mandatory sentences to a waiver of your right to a trial by your peers.
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You must love that prosecutors can offer lower sentences in exchange for testimony against other defendants.
If I pay someone a hundred bucks to testify in a defendant's favor, I am subject to all manner of penalties. If as a prosecutor I offer that same person three years of freedom to testify against a defendant, I am working the system.
This was litigated a few years ago, in a case that was very interesting in the fifteen minutes before it got reversed as an obvious threat to the criminal litigation system.
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