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Plea Bargaining

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Rehabilitating Charge Bargaining, Nancy Combs Apr 2021

Rehabilitating Charge Bargaining, Nancy Combs

Indiana Law Journal

Nobody likes plea bargaining. Scholars worldwide have excoriated the practice, calling it coercive and unjust, among other pejorative adjectives. Despite its unpopularity, plea bargaining constitutes a central component of the American criminal justice system, and the United States has exported the practice to a host of countries worldwide. Indeed, plea bargaining has even appeared at international criminal tribunals, created to prosecute genocide and crimes against humanity—the gravest crimes known to humankind. Although all forms of plea bargaining are unpopular, commentators reserve their harshest criticism for charge bargaining because charge bargaining is said to distort the factual basis of the defendant’s …


Plea Bargaining, Decision Theory, And Equilibrium Models: Part Ii, Stuart S. Nagel, Marian Neef Oct 1976

Plea Bargaining, Decision Theory, And Equilibrium Models: Part Ii, Stuart S. Nagel, Marian Neef

Indiana Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Plea Bargaining, Decision Theory, And Equilibrium Models: Part I, Stuart S. Nagel, Marian Neef Jul 1976

Plea Bargaining, Decision Theory, And Equilibrium Models: Part I, Stuart S. Nagel, Marian Neef

Indiana Law Journal

No abstract provided.