The Occupy Wall Street freeloaders are going to tear this country down.
Why doesn’t anyone care? :(
I’m surprised it hasn’t happened already.
Let’s see... if you go to trial rather than plea-bargaining, especially if you might be found guilty, don’t you risk a higher penalty? Isn’t this essentially what the game theory people call “the prisoner’s dilemma?”
Interesting thought.
I always thought it would be fun to see what would happen if eveyone when to the foodstamp office, welfare and all the other “free stuff” offices and applied, even if we did not need it.
Works both ways, Obamahole libs.
Just wait....
It’ll be either that...
Or CW II.
It’ll never work.
Self-interest always wins, particularly with the criminally self-interested. Nobody’s going to risk a much longer prison sentence on some feeble attempt to crash the system.
SnakeDoc
If they would not plea down criminal acts, and would make criminals serve appropriate sentences, the criminal justice system could be a lot smaller, and consume much fewer resources trying the same criminals over and over and over again.
Public Defenderes tried that before...a number of criminals were up on relatively minor charges, the defenders wanted them to go to trial and jam up the works...One of the first up decided to plead out and the judge gave him time already served and let him go...the rest jumped on board and plead out also...
There's actually a faster and lower risk way than demanding a jury trial.....
Keep your mouth shut.
Most of the people in jail either confessed to the police, or told easily checked lies to the police, or bragged to other criminals who testified against them, or talked to “trusted” friends or family who testified against them.
If a criminal has the self-discipline to continuously say, “I have no statement to make at this time,” his chance of staying out of jail instantly goes up to about 90%.
Regards,
GtG
Judges will react by stiffening bail requirements and making the protestors wait out the backlog in county jail.
Go the jury trial route. It is your right. I hope you are paying for the ride and not the taxpayer
Might be more useful to start widely informing the general public about the concept of “jury nullification” actually.
Funny the trial lawyer didn’t mention that.
/s
What would happen if everyone demanded a trial? Most would sit in jail for several years before seeing a courtroom for a trial.
Alinsky, anyone?
This is interesting. More so in light of the fact that we’ve slowly and completely criminalized everybody in the US at this point.
Who here isn’t guilty of committing some sort of crime? Its a tough question to answer since its very probable you may not even know you’ve committed a crime in the first place.