Police State

And insider exposes how the US justice system has become a conviction system.

"We often hear anecdotes about police traffic-ticket quotas around the country. But we rarely hear about prosecution quotas. At a Federalist Society symposium in Austin, Texas on March 2, a former federal prosecutor named Julie Rose O’Sullivan (now an Associate Dean and Professor of Law at Georgetown University) admitted in public that federal prosecutors file charges simply to get their "numbers up" by the end of the year. By increasing their "numbers" of prosecutions, O’Sullivan said, a U.S. Attorneys Office gets more funding the following year. (Start listening at the 54 minute mark.) Professor O’Sullivan even said that the various state and federal prosecutors around New York City fight intensely among each other for cases, so vast are their collective resources compared to the level of actual crime in the greater New York area."

Prosecutors are clearly motivated by self-interest, not justice, just as one would expect.

"Virtually every measurement illustrates the increased tendency of American courts to favor the prosecution during the past century. Numbers and percentages of Americans being prosecuted have steadily grown; rates of multi-count and multi-defendant indictments have gone up steadily; conviction rates have increased; numbers of prisoners have quintupled since the 1980s; and average prison sentences have lengthened. Even average bail amounts have increased much faster than the rate of inflation.
As the playing field has tilted, the vast majority of defendants now simply surrender and plead guilty. Consequently, trials are disappearing. University of Wisconsin Law Professor Marc Galanter attributes this trend to "a shift in ideology and practice among litigants, lawyers, and judges." In essence, the legal profession has abandoned its commitment to adversarial technicalities and has embraced the greater efficiency of top-down inquisitorial justice."

I always heard that lawyers rush to make deals, but that hasn't been my experience, though I'm sure some lawyers are like this. Most of the lawyers I've met relish trying cases. The problem is the playing field is so unfair, it's very hard to win a trial, and the client suffers more if the case is lost.

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