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Anonymous wrote:City council is voting on this tomorrow. Criminal rejoice! Soon D.C. will not even have slaps on the wrist for most crimes. Amazing that crime is so bad and the city council's answer is to radically reduce punishments. Our elected leaders are off in la la land.

Yep. The requirement re: jury trial seems to be the least of the worries.....

Anonymous wrote:This thread is so ill-informed. A huge number of states already have a right to a jury trial for misdemeanors that carry jail time. Including crazy liberal strongholds like Arizona and Florida, which are both more generous than DC's proposed rule (6mo and 90 days jail time are the thresholds).

Guess what, it hasn't crippled their systems or backed up their courts for years. Defendants still plead, the wheels keep turning. There's no reason for these histrionics