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Civil Liberties

activistUSA

(17 posts)

8. The founders/framers

Reply to Desert Dem (Original post)

Thu Apr 16, 2020, 06:12 PM

Apr 2020

would turn over in their graves with the knowledge that their constitutional precepts concerning criminal justice have been thrown out the window and the goal of prosecutors and defense counsel is to push for an American invention called a "plea bargain" resulting in the highest percentage of incarceration in the world (at least the free world).

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