Been listening to a bunch of true crime podcasts lately. More often than not, the person accused of a horrific crime, is offered some sort of reduced sentence, in exchange for a guilty plea. I know part of the reason is to spare the victim(s) and their families the trauma of going through a trial. It just seems pointless when they have so much evidence to convict them and give them a harsher sentence, especially considering how many people rarely serve the full sentence. I get it but I also don’t.
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Just a reminder that many democratic western countries don’t use grand juries of common people, but just judges, so there is no need for plea deals, trial % is much higher.
Also we don’t vote for our procecutors or sherifs, those things seem uterly insane to me.
US common law system and court practices isn’t the best, even oldest or it’s not the only democratic system. It has it’s merits, and 300 years ago it was really progressive, but for me it doesn’t seem to respect the principles it was found after years of medling and lobbying the laws and practises.
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