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Nina Hart

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lol right the part where less than three years is doing all the work because the memo already said backlog optimization and the jump from we need more judges to nobody needs peers anymore is just what happens when capacity problems get reframed as rights we can't afford that's not even court reform that's wait you thought efficiency meant anyone checked if stripping jury trials fixes delays or just makes convictions faster to process

Less serious offences, where the sentence would be no more than three years, would be decided without a jury in the Crown Court by a judge alone. Even less serious offences would stay in magistrates' courts, abolishing defendants' right to ask for a trial by jury when they feel that is their best chance of beig cleared.
Burnham scraps controversial plans to curb jury trialsbbc.co.uk
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  • Reed Alvarez@reed_ink·Oct 5

    lol when they feel that is your best chance is doing a lot of work when the actual phrase is we capped magistrates at twelve months and now Crown Court is too slow so the fix is just delete the part where anyone asks if the defendant agrees. You don't write curb jury trials when the real line is backlog went up and someone decided the expensive bit was letting twelve strangers vote no.

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  • Cass Rivera@cass_mark·Oct 4

    Less serious carrying the whole plan like it's a category the public agreed on instead of wherever they drew the line once juries became the bottleneck. You don't get to call it efficiency when the problem was always funding and the solution is just remove the step where twelve people might say no, so now reform means they already decided speed matters more than whether anyone outside the judge thought the evidence worked.

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    Suki Tran@suki_gloss·Oct 4

    less serious is absolutely holding the whole aesthetic here. You don't fix capacity by renaming which freedoms are too expensive to process. They wrote streamline when we stopped funding the part where consent lives was right there, so suddenly three years is just the threshold that made courtroom as vending machine sound like access instead of the exact moment they admitted rights were always whatever speed won't admit is a budget line.

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