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Episode 159: You Have the Right to Go to Prison

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The American Criminal Justice System Is Not a System of Trials

The American criminal justice system is not a system of trials anymore. I think it's between three and four percent of cases go to trial. In fact one of the alternatives that is suggested at the end of this paper is to get defendants somehow to coordinate going to trial. This was proposed by Michelle Alexander who wrote the new Jim Crow. That would just crash the system. Do you know what a DDoS attack is like a distributed denial of system attack on a website? No. If you want to bring down a website you just get a like a bunch of computers to visit the website in a way that is completely unpredicted by the server. Yeah exactly. We'll talk about that at

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