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JASON AND THE JETS

By "Captain Liberty" and "Rumpole"

Jason Taylor is a Jet. Hard to believe. And the J...E...T....S open the season in Miami. Trial Tax:If there is anything that truly chills the Constitution and the Sixth Amendment right to trial it is the so called trial tax. You know how it goes- the prosecution offers three years probation for a couple of third degree felonies, but your client wants a trial. Then the Judge and the prosecutor go through their well worn act - read: dog and pony show- in which the Judge asks the prosecutor what the maximum penalty is and what the prosecution will seek as a sentence after trial? The prosecutor then solemnly intones that the total possible penalty is 15 years, and suddenly the client with no priors with whom everyone was happy to see sentenced to probation is told that the sentence will be at least ten years and they will be taken into custody immediately after the verdict...continue to full post

Full post as published by Justice Building Blog on April 20, 2010 (boomark / email).