Re:An AI robot lawyer was set to argue in court. Real lawyer...
by Spooky23 on Thursday January 26, 2023 @06:31PM
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I agree in many cases, except traffic court isn’t real court. It’s mostly procedural. Hell in my state, in many cases the judge is a person who wins an election and takes a 20 hour course, and prosecutions are conducted by police officers.
Lawyers like to wax about the interests of justice. Reality is for crap like this, it’s a revenue funnel where there’s a pecking order of people who get breaks. Some small fraction have an actual legal dispute of facts.
I’d argue that you could best serve the interests of justice by bringing the whole process online. You’d eliminate the “friends and family” discount and have a real tribunal process for cases that need it, instead of the cattle call and mockery that these courts are.
NYC actually does a decent job with this by outsourcing the whole thing to DMV and administrative law judges on a tight leash. It’s mostly justice by flowchart. That pushes bullshit down to the police.
Lawyers like to wax about the interests of justice. Reality is for crap like this, it’s a revenue funnel where there’s a pecking order of people who get breaks. Some small fraction have an actual legal dispute of facts.
I’d argue that you could best serve the interests of justice by bringing the whole process online. You’d eliminate the “friends and family” discount and have a real tribunal process for cases that need it, instead of the cattle call and mockery that these courts are.
NYC actually does a decent job with this by outsourcing the whole thing to DMV and administrative law judges on a tight leash. It’s mostly justice by flowchart. That pushes bullshit down to the police.