Perhaps an even larger problem (at least larger in magnitude) is that a huge percentage of federal defendants who plead guilty do so not because they are actually guilty, but because the deck is so stacked against them at trial, and the trial penalty so severe, that no reasonable person would go to trial in the vast majority of criminal cases. One small reform that could improve that injustice would be provide for some true discovery by federal criminal defendants. Do you think that would be a good reform?
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Perhaps an even larger problem (at least larger in magnitude) is that a huge percentage of federal defendants who plead guilty do so not because they are actually guilty, but because the deck is so stacked against them at trial, and the trial penalty so severe, that no reasonable person would go to trial in the vast majority of criminal cases. One small reform that could improve that injustice would be provide for some true discovery by federal criminal defendants. Do you think that would be a good reform?
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