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Good evening. Im Alicia Menendez here with symone Sanders Townsend and michael steele. As of this minute, we are 34 days from Election Day 2024. A short time ago, democratic governor Tim Walz of minnesota and republican senator j. D. Vance of ohio faced over the first and only Vice President ial debate this cycle. Folks, lets be clear. The debate might have seemed normal but must nothing was normal on what happened on that stage. J. D. Vance tried to rewrite swaths of Terms Policy positions. Fla...

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(TNS) When Seth Raines was arrested for a robbery in Hart County and charged with a felony, he suddenly faced 15 years in prison.

Herald-Leader Editorial Board: Kentucky’s leaders must examine our dependence on the use of plea bargains in criminal trials. It’s making our justice system much less than just.

In 2018, less than one-third of one percent of Kentucky criminal cases went to trial.

While jury trials might have afforded citizens the chance to witness—and even contest—the criminalization of the working class, plea bargains have allowed this criminalization to happen without their knowledge.

American society has become so over-criminalized that, according to the Institute for Policy Studies, the average working adult in this country unintentionally commits an average of three felonies a day. This nation’s obsession with prosecuting and incarcerating millions of its citizens is well known, and many

For many, the jury trial represents the cornerstone of criminal justice itself: a truth-seeking mission that allows a person to be judged by a panel of peers. But trials have become rare. Around 97 percent of all criminal cases don't go to trial but instead end in guilty pleas, most of them the result of a bargaining process driven by prosecutors with the power to coerce defendants into giving up their right to a trial.