How Much Is Trump Going To Destroy? [View all]
Dina Doll
I was in a courtroom this week when James Comey was indicted. Not the same courtroom. I was covering the preliminary hearing for Nick Reiner, a man charged with the murder of his parents. Reiner’s public defender stood up and requested yet another delay of his preliminary hearing, the next step the prosecutor must take to move the case to trial.
That is what the criminal justice system looks like up close.
It is slow. It is procedural. It is, on its surface, unremarkable. And that is entirely the point.
The system was not built for speed. It was built for protection. Hundreds of years of hard lessons, bad kings, crooked sheriffs, and railroaded defendants went into designing a process that puts friction between the government and the power to take away your liberty. Every scheduling date, every motion, every required appearance is a speed bump placed deliberately in the path of the state. Because the state is enormously powerful. And people are not.
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