Kind of makes my point.
This judge closed 20 cases a week, or, presumably 4 per day on average. One every two hours. That’s not unreasonable for traffic court. For felony cases, not so much.
Without most if not all of those being plea bargained, the system would collapse. But such a system quite obviously cares little about guilt or innocence. It is, by necessity, desperately focused on productivity.
It is widely protested that the incarceration rate of the States is far higher than the rest of the world’s. This kind of sausage justice can’t make the picture look any prettier.
Perhaps this system needs to collapse.
Any system that depends on innocents pleading guilty to function obviously needs replacement.