[conistonwater]

> The justice system just moves slowly. Many people spend upwards of years before going to trial. This is nothing unusual.

I think this is one of the things I learned from Ken White on All the President's Lawyers: we read about legal system abuse here and there and it shocks us, but even the most common normal things in the criminal justice system like how long criminal trials take can be just as shocking if only you know about them.