Cutting Costs in the Criminal Justice System

President Obama says the criminal justice system is good at cutting costs. He said 98.3% of all convictions come not through constitutionally prescribed jury trials, but through guilty pleas. The average cost of a non-capital felony prosecution included a jury trial would be well over $100,000, he said. But if that same case is resolved through a guilty plea, you know, you might spend $10,000 on it,.