Note that the UK government is currently in the process of adopting such policies. If they're successful, look for this sort of arrangement to be proposed in other European countries as "reforms".
I didn't like the sound of that when I first heard about it. Now I am dead set against it. Politics and the justice system have no business being connected like this in any way.
The system is so horribly compromised in the US it's hard to see how it can be meaningfully fixed. What a mess.
