Why America's prisons are an unconstitutional moral horror (2019)
What would happen if the chief public defender of a large city declared that no public defender would accept any plea deal and that they would be taking everything to trial?<p>The courts would immediately be clogged and prosecutors would be forced to drop many charges because they wouldn't be able to have a trial within the mandated 70 days.<p>Prosecutors would be forced to choose the cases that they actually believed important as opposed to the current as-many-charges-and-cases-as-they-can.