For their part, the lawyers complain that they are overworked and underpaid in a system under pressure to produce a high volume of quick guilty pleas.
The proposed resolution could lead to a series of relatively quick guilty pleas, allowing the defendants to receive some kind of legal benefit and the government to avoid a series of protracted trials.
But Mr. Lemaine, a legal permanent resident, soon discovered that his quick guilty plea had dire consequences.
This year the Government introduced the Transforming Summary Justice initiative, which was intended to speed cases through the magistrates courts and encourage quick guilty pleas at first hearings.
It'll cost money to achieve the quality of justice we claim to provide: to do more careful investigations, to take fewer quick guilty pleas and conduct more trials, and to make sure those trials are well done.
"The courts use pretrial detention as a quick means of punishment, guilty or not, and it alienates them, makes hardened criminals out of 15-year-olds," said Jaap Doek, a juvenile court judge in the Netherlands and a member of the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child.
It remains unclear how many jurors are fixed on the issue of criminal intent, but if the jurors were to determine they had reasonable doubt about the criminal intent of the defendants, they could return a quick verdict of not guilty on all 32 counts.
"I'm treading a thin line between what Iraqis want, which is a quick process to judge Saddam guilty and just kill him, and what the international community desires, which is due process, a fair trial.
In case anyone needs a quick refresher, Suarez was found guilty of using insulting words towards Evra which included reference to race in 2011, resulting in the then-Liverpool striker being fined £40,000 and banned for eight games.
"I just took a quick peek," she admitted with a guilty face.
