[L.N. Smithee]

And your plan to protect the innocent?

Uh...the truth?

[RogerFGay]

Uh...the truth?

OK. From now on we'll just tell the criminals to tell the truth. After that, we'll know that everyone who pleads innocent must be.

[mathurine]

Why should any of us non-lawyers even worry about alternative systems to protect the occasional innocent when the legal profession, which controls the judiciary and the congress, as well as the union (aka American Bar Association) and all state legislatures, has a system under which they prosper? And a system which is good for major political contributions from its own to its own to insure that nothing is ever changed to the disadvantage of its own. Is it good for the innocent? Maybe. Who knows? Do lawyers make good money? Indeed they do? Your witness, counselor.