Re: jury duty
Bill Bartlett wrote:
Plea-bargaining is the most odious ingredient to add to the mix, making punishment quite arbitrary in practice, in spite of so-called minimum sentencing. (Following what is often a form of trial by ordeal.) It is no exaggeration to say that you end up with a pre Magna Carta justice system, with arbitrary imprisonment at the whim of executive government.
Allow me once again to cite The Sopranos, where Johnny “Sack” Sacramoni takes 15 years in a deal with the feds despite the best lawyering money can buy. Of course he’s guilty as hell, but still…
Doug