{"id":28365,"date":"2012-03-21T10:58:41","date_gmt":"2012-03-21T17:58:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=28365"},"modified":"2012-03-21T10:58:41","modified_gmt":"2012-03-21T17:58:41","slug":"ny-times-go-to-trial-crash-the-justice-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2012\/03\/21\/ny-times-go-to-trial-crash-the-justice-system\/","title":{"rendered":"NY Times: Go to Trial: Crash the Justice System"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AFTER years as a civil rights lawyer, I rarely find myself speechless. But some questions a woman I know posed during a phone conversation one recent evening gave me pause: \u201cWhat would happen if we organized thousands, even hundreds of thousands, of people charged with crimes to refuse to play the game, to refuse to plea out? What if they all insisted on their Sixth Amendment right to trial? Couldn\u2019t we bring the whole system to a halt just like that?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The woman was Susan Burton, who knows a lot about being processed through the criminal justice system. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/03\/11\/opinion\/sunday\/go-to-trial-crash-the-justice-system.html\">Read the whole article here<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFTER years as a civil rights lawyer, I rarely find myself speechless. But some questions a woman I know posed during a phone conversation one recent evening gave me pause: \u201cWhat would happen if we organized thousands, even hundreds of thousands, of people charged with crimes to refuse to play the game, to refuse to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-important-news-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}