Altogether, defendants face stiffer punishments for going to trial — known as a trial penalty — that can add seven to nine years or more to their sentence.
technically being punished for fighting for their innocence
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- Oct 2023
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The prevalence of plea bargaining exploded in the last several decades as a way to save money and time and to promote more certainty in outcomes.
using the excuse of " saving money" is hard to fully understand. either way money is being spent so it should be done the right way
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innocent people are coerced into guilty pleas
there is such significant power imbalance. this is concerning because if you are truly innocent, everything can be taken away from you because of greedy prosecutors
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a practice that prizes efficiency over fairness and innocence
i find it concerning that this is done in a place where justice is supposed to be served, it goes for both sides of the case
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- Aug 2023
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“If you look at what's coming out of the White House, Joe Biden is saying fund the police, but he's also saying fund community-based violence prevention programs,” Turner says. “New York, Los Angeles, Minneapolis and Washington have all used [federal] funds to invest in community violence prevention programs.”
Joe Biden is attempting to help save communities where abuse of power has been taken place. There are funds to assist in prevention when corruption takes place.
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Having officers out sick and isolated, lessening the number of officers on duty, and trying to maintain social distancing obviously reduced their effectiveness,
I never realized the direct relationship that police had with the virus and how it would and could have effected communities all over ; "reducing their effectiveness".
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“For the first time ever, gun violence was the top cause of death for children in 2020,
I find this very sad because it can be prevented on so many levels. Those in power should be more inclined to protect children. Very little has been done to do so which reflects on how the people are seen.
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In one of the city's most recent eruptions of gun violence, 21 people were injured in multiple shootings after a May 13 NBA playoff game. The incident was one of several mass shootings that occurred across the country that weekend
It is very unfortunate that a moment when people are meant to celebrate after their team won is met with violence. Was there a common factor that could have possibly provoked this?
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The causes of the increase are unclear; some argue that COVID-19 exacerbated long-standing societal problems and hampered police
The argument here is that covid-19, and the isolation that came from it, brought to surface societal differences and complications that were more hidden in both public and private life.
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