How Our Criminal Justice System Is Almost Entirely Negotiated Behind Closed Doors | Think | NBC News

There is an ideal of the American criminal justice system where defense attorneys and prosecutors are equal, with a neutral judge and jury presiding over everything. U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff joined THINK to discuss why the actual system functions nothing like that.
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