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Re:King County rolls out Miranda rights tailored for young p... by sbarre on Thursday September 28, 2017 @04:24PM (#15360417)
Until they remove career-advancing incentives for prosecutors that are tied to case outcomes and numbers of filings, this probably won't happen.
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Re:King County rolls out Miranda rights tailored for young p... by plussed_reader on Thursday September 28, 2017 @04:40PM (#15360544)
And since CA is the example: you also remove the prosecutorial discretion when you codify things like mandatory minimum sentences.
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Re:King County rolls out Miranda rights tailored for young p... by geephroh on Thursday September 28, 2017 @04:58PM (#15360654)
Ummm....WA actually, as in Seattle. But you're still not wrong since we have mandatory minimums here as well.
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Re:King County rolls out Miranda rights tailored for young p... by jff on Thursday September 28, 2017 @06:43PM (#15361392)
> Ummm....WA actually, as in Seattle.

Give it a few more years...

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Re:King County rolls out Miranda rights tailored for young p... by jacalata on Thursday September 28, 2017 @09:48PM (#15362181)
And then we'll be CA for Cascadia, the newest Canadian province!
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