I Wonder How Many People

[Wyrd of Gawd]

The best way to do that is for the juries to simply stop convicting people.

That is not the case though, Wyrd.

http://www.fairtrials.org/press/plea-bar...n-the-usa/

A report by Human Rights Watch published in December 2013 confirms the central – and often coercive – role that plea bargaining plays in many criminal cases in the USA.  The report explores how in drugs cases, defendants are routinely offered plea bargains that conform to minimum mandatory sentencing while being threatened with extraordinarily long sentences should they refuse to plead guilty and instead exercise their right to a trial. The outcome of this practice has been a staggering 97% of US federal convictions resulting in a guilty plea, and a concentration of power in the hands of prosecutors rather than courts.

Everyone knows that and everyone knows someone who uses drugs.  Yet the dummies on the juries become lap dogs and convict people when they could simply not find them guilty and thereby take away the power of the DAs to frame their friends and family members.