dump truck
n.— «Once they realize you’re not resisting their demand to go to trial and their demand that they pay you some attention…then they will drop their resistance to a plea bargain based specifically on you as the dump truck who doesn’t care about them.» —“Trial by Plea Bargain: Case Settlement as a Product of Recursive Decisionmaking” by Debra S. Emmelman in Calif. Law & Society Review , 1984-1988. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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