Plea Bargaining and Torture in light of the Aaron Swartz case
I don't understand why the system works this way. Shouldn't the goal be to achieve justice? I.e. if someone committed a crime that actually deserves 20 years in prison, why should the government settle for only 2 years? And if the person is innocent of any real crime, why should he do any time?Instead it's based around some kind of competition of prosecution vs. defense, so they can compromise on smaller prison terms. It probably save everyone lots of money, but I don't see the where the justice is. Maybe if they had a simpler and less money-dominated legal system (with less lawyers), they could try to achieve real justice.