Complex criminal trials that stretch on for months - sometimes years - and cost taxpayers millions of dollars are the target of new federal legislation that aims to streamline the process and get faster convictions.

In unveiling the Fair and Efficient Trial Act, which takes a multi-pronged approach to reducing the complexity of mammoth criminal legal proceedings, the government said cases that take a long time to work through the system are hard on the justice system. Those cases are also at increased risk of eventually being thrown out.

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