Criminal justice assembly line

This Standard most specifically presents a lost opportunity for the ABA Standards to clearly and boldly confront assembly-line justice by stating simply and eloquently, “[d]efense counsel should advise against a guilty plea at the first appearance.” 47 .

13 Zeidman:

To address the problem of assembly line justice, some advocates have called for reforms to the criminal justice system, such as:

The term “assembly line” is a metaphor that implies that the criminal justice system is treating cases like products in a factory, moving them through quickly and without much attention to the individual circumstances of each case.