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?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.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.