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Thank you for writing about this issue. The fact that this is not a more widely discussed issue is surprising to me. Criminal justice is not my field of expertise by any stretch of the imagination, but I am still rather surprised that something this blatantly violative of right to trial by jury is not something that is more widely discussed by activists, institutions, and media the way mandatory minimums, or three strike laws, or the huge proportion of cases that end in pleas tend to be.

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Well, that's just stunning. I'm a lawyer in the US, admittedly not a criminal justice lawyer, but WTF?

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