I think of the legal system in the US. It's easy to find statements about how the entire legal system would collapse if people stopped taking plea bargains because nothing is actually funded or operated in a way that actually guarantees the right to trial in any practical way.

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wmf 5 hours ago | parent [-]

I wonder if the system would actually collapse or people would just sit in jail for 10 years.

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fhdkweig 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Supposedly, there is a right to a speedy trial, and supposedly, if it is violated, they have to let you go without a trial. Don't know if it is really tested often.

	▲	AnimalMuppet 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		The practical legal definition of "speedy" might not match peoples' intuitive definition.

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idle_zealot 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

We would run out of room in jails, hastily contract out construction for rapid expansion, and then people would die en masse in the shoddy camps the contractors deliver.

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rcxdude 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

The US has things like the right to a speedy trial.