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Until they remove career-advancing incentives for prosecutors that are tied to case outcomes and numbers of filings, this probably won't happen.

And since CA is the example: you also remove the prosecutorial discretion when you codify things like mandatory minimum sentences.

Ummm....WA actually, as in Seattle. But you're still not wrong since we have mandatory minimums here as well.

> Ummm....WA actually, as in Seattle.

Give it a few more years...

And then we'll be CA for Cascadia, the newest Canadian province!