Comment by moffkalast
2 years ago
Doesn't this ordering also go against additional delay, since it expedites misdemeanors at the expense of felonies? Cases should just be tried in the order they were submitted.
2 years ago
Doesn't this ordering also go against additional delay, since it expedites misdemeanors at the expense of felonies? Cases should just be tried in the order they were submitted.
I feel like there's probably an excellent reason that the order is the way it is, due to the wonderful process of time.
This feels a lot like saying "let's just blow up the tax code and rewrite it!" And we end up generating the same 2 million lines of policy to close all of the loopholes all over again.
This assumes some of the the 2 millions lines weren’t written specifically to introduce loopholes.
> I feel like there's probably an excellent reason that the order is the way it is, due to the wonderful process of time.
But this assumes that the process of time is tending towards the better. Each change that was made was surely made on the basis of experience and created a local improvement, but that doesn't mean that they operate well together.
(Nor, of course, does it mean that they are likely to be so easily fixed that it can be done in a tossed-off HN comment.)
> this assumes that the process of time is tending towards the better.
Yes, this I generally believe, at least as far as societal maturity is concerned. We still have our moments, of course.
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