Is this OK?
mediator blah…blah…: Well, maybe Owen ’settlement is the civil analogue of plea bargaining’ Fiss had a better crystal ball than I gave him credit for in my recent post.
With news this week from Clay County, Kentucky that its crime mediation program - in which felony cases are mediated - was wildly successful.
Heck, they did 19 in one day in Clay County and 12 more in nearby Boyd County, including matters of burglary, drug trafficking, theft, assault, fleeing and evading law enforcement, and manufacturing methamphetamine - all in the name of congested dockets and cost saving.
“Now it’s just a matter of identifying the next areas to use this program, which likely will be jurisdictions with heavy caseloads and an overcrowded jail nearby” says the manager of the program.
And it sounds like mediation confidentiality is screwed too - “If a defendant says something incriminating during mediation and it falls through, I expect…