A lot of DA’s in the US trump up charges and add anything they can think of, often in order to scare the defendant into settling out of court. I believe some 97% of cases in the US are settled out of court. That doesn’t happen over here.
In the the old days, frontier judges would “hop” from one town to another and hold mock court in which the principles of law and justice are disregarded or perverted.
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A lot of DA’s in the US trump up charges and add anything they can think of, often in order to scare the defendant into settling out of court. I believe some 97% of cases in the US are settled out of court. That doesn’t happen over here.
OK. Thank you for explaining.
In the the old days, frontier judges would “hop” from one town to another and hold mock court in which the principles of law and justice are disregarded or perverted.
I guess I don’t think of the US court system as being like that today.