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When Courts Just Decide Not To Follow The Law

The state legislature just passed a law, but the courts won't be following it.

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Ed. Note: Welcome to our daily feature Trivia Question of the Day!

The Administrative Office of which state’s courts instructed courts that a longstanding ban on plea bargains in drunken-driving cases is still in effect — despite a recent bill passed by the state legislature and signed by the governor allowing the practice?

Hint: “If the Legislature says that we can plea bargain, we should be allowed to plea bargain. And the fact that the court says they won’t do it shows there are questions—Are they overstepping or not?” Jacob P. Davidson, a defense lawyer in the state said. “But I’m not losing sleep over it because we weren’t allowed to plea bargain beforehand.”

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