Assertion: jury | /r/HasProperty | unwitting
Facets:
value: before the rise of plea bargaining
type: TEMPORAL
value: because of the absence of trained professionals
type: CAUSE
Source sentences:
text: Others contend that there never was a golden age of jury trials, but rather that juries in the early nineteenth century (before the rise of plea bargaining) were "unwitting and reflexive, generally wasteful of public resources and, because of the absence of trained professionals, little more than slow guilty pleas themselves", and that the guilty-plea system that emerged in the latter half of the nineteenth century was a superior, more cost-effective method of achieving fair outcomes.