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I'm sure you're aware that realistically most people would just plead guilty and accept some kind of deal rather than go through the court system.

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There are also lots of people who wouldn't.

Many more would plead and that's the problem.

At this rate you may as well just tear down the whole government. You can't write law that's specific to every single use case, you have to rely on courts for that.

If you're going to say that you can't trust courts to do this job, you're saying that the whole government is non-functional, and That point there's nothing you can say or do that's reasonable.

Blanket cynicism and obstruction helps no one and gets us nowhere.

> In any given year, 98% of criminal cases in the federal courts end with a plea bargain — a practice that prizes efficiency over fairness and innocence

https://www.npr.org/2023/02/22/1158356619/plea-bargains-crim...

Can't help but be cynical when presented with these numbers.

The laws are written by prosecutors for other prosecutors to generate headlines and votes.

That's not exactly a great number to show if you don't know the percentage of people going to trial who are guilty in the first place.

If you know you did the crime, you know they've got proof, you have an option to take a plea deal that's less than the costs of losing the court case, wouldn't you take it?

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