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Re:Tokyo has an unmanned, honor-system electronics and appli... by rangestransform on Monday September 08, 2025 @04:43PM (#45173727)
The US court system already relies heavily on plea deals to not jam up the courts. Increasing the throughput of the justice system to facilitate your idea would require an order of magnitude investment into more courts, judges, public defenders, prosecutors, etc. I'm all for it, but the incredible cost does have to be considered
Re:Tokyo has an unmanned, honor-system electronics and appli... by HPsquared on Tuesday September 09, 2025 @03:32AM (#45178679)
Are plea deals factored into the US conviction rate?
Re:Tokyo has an unmanned, honor-system electronics and appli... by yorwba on Tuesday September 09, 2025 @05:51AM (#45179820)
In the PDF I linked above, on page 4, you can see that 97.2% of sentences result from guilty pleas and 2.8% from trials.