What the heck. Forcing plea bargains on 96% percent of accused is just so we can be "expedient" for the other 4%? How does that make sense? Other countries get by just fine without plea bargains. Maybe we could get expedience by, you know, focusing prosecution effort on serious crimes or ones that actually have victims.
> Feel free to continue putting words into my mouth about "sanctioning miscarriage of justice" though.
You might want to read up on how plea bargaining is viewed in other countries. There are some that are of the opinion that plea bargains are "miscarriage of justice", and you seem to be defending it as a perfectly fine practice.
(edit: not sure what I think on plea bargains generally. But in this particular case it seems pretty ridiculous.)