The trial structure in Mount Augusta guarantees that both the defendant and plaintiff have a "reason" to move forward with their trial; the plaintiff wants his trial to be solved and the opposing party to be sentenced, and the defendant is arrested/pearled and wishes to be released promptly (or serve his sentence as soon as possible).

However, in cases where the defendant is not pearled and/or the plaintiff didn't start the trial with the goal of having the defendant pearled, this structure fails, and the trial becomes stalled.

The constitution foresees this, and summarized judgements exist to finalize trials in these cases:

CMA§III.C, Enforcement of Augustan Law, Trials, part (vii):

vii. If the prosecution or defense in a trial willfully neglects the trial unreasonably for 48 or more hours, the opposing party may petition the judge for a summary judgment. The judge is empowered to approve this request and issue a verdict, thereby ending the trial.

However, the defendant can simply ignore the trial when he had the last word, and the trial then becomes static.

This problem needs to be addressed urgently, as it can generate legal deadlocks. To solve this, I basically propose also giving the judge the option to skip the neglectful party's turn.

The proposed changes to the constitution are:

CMA§III.C, Enforcement of Augustan Law, Trials, part (vii):

vii. If the prosecution or defense in a trial willfully neglects the trial unreasonably for 48 or more hours, the opposing party may petition the judge for a summary judgment. The judge is empowered to approve this request and issue a verdict, thereby ending the trial, or skip the neglectful party's turn; assuming the following conditions are met

a. A summary judgment may not be issued unless It is certain beyond reasonable doubt that the neglectful party is aware of the ongoing trial.

b. A summary judgment may not be issued if It is reasonable to believe that the neglectful party was unaware that it was their turn.

c. The party requesting a summary judgment The petitioning party must provide evidence of the neglectful party's activity outside the trial or evidence of them intentionally neglecting the trial.

d. The prosecution or defense may petition the judge for a time extension. The judge may grant this extension dependent on the reasoning provided.