[HN Gopher] Why America's prisons are an unconstitutional moral ...
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       Why America's prisons are an unconstitutional moral horror (2019)
        
       Author : dan-robertson
       Score  : 38 points
       Date   : 2021-04-05 22:31 UTC (29 minutes ago)
        
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       | djoldman wrote:
       | What would happen if the chief public defender of a large city
       | declared that no public defender would accept any plea deal and
       | that they would be taking everything to trial?
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       | The courts would immediately be clogged and prosecutors would be
       | forced to drop many charges because they wouldn't be able to have
       | a trial within the mandated 70 days.
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       | Prosecutors would be forced to choose the cases that they
       | actually believed important as opposed to the current as-many-
       | charges-and-cases-as-they-can.
        
       | dan-robertson wrote:
       | For EU users: https://archive.is/rChRr
        
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