Waiting in courts teaches defendants to abandon legally valid rights.

Evidence

The defendant who has waited through such a day has been instructed in the costs of continued interaction with the court system and must consider whether exercising rights or even pleading innocent in a minor matter, although legally valid, is worth the time and irritation. Some court systems have recently recognized that similar problems, including frequent postponements, inhibit witnesses from appearing and testifYing in trials. But the same analysis rarely focuses on defendants and their experiences in court. — Michael Lipsky, Street-Level Bureaucracy, 711

Categorization

• SEED: Angle: procedural delay as a de facto deterrent system — how court queueing design quietly replaces formal legal rules without any statute changing.
• XREF: connects to: Court scheduling shifts the cost of administrative convenience onto defendants’ time. — Michael Lipsky, Street-Level Bureaucracy: Dilemmas of…, 708; Arrest alone makes defendants pay time and uncertainty costs to the court — Michael Lipsky, Street-Level Bureaucracy: Dilemmas of…, 709; A court can reconcile legal doctrine with founding ideology by defaming the rights-holder

Broader Connections

• Arrest alone makes defendants pay time and uncertainty costs to the court #expands (0.85) — Michael Lipsky, Street-Level Bureaucracy, 709
• A court can reconcile legal doctrine with founding ideology by defaming the rights-holder #exemplifies (0.75)