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Exacerbating Injustice, Stephanos Bibas
Exacerbating Injustice, Stephanos Bibas
All Faculty Scholarship
This brief essay responds to Josh Bowers' argument that criminal procedure should openly allow innocent defendants to plead guilty as a legal fiction. Though most scholars emphasize the few but salient serious felony cases, Bowers is right to refocus attention on misdemeanors and violations, which are far more numerous. And though the phrase wrongful convictions conjures up images of punishing upstanding citizens, Bowers is also right to emphasize that recidivists are far more likely to suffer wrongful suspicion and conviction. Bowers' mistake is to treat the criminal justice system as simply a means of satisfying defendants' preferences and choices. This …
Doubting Demaree: The Application Of Ex Post Facto Principles To The United States Sentencing Guidelines After United States V. Booker, James R. Dillon
Doubting Demaree: The Application Of Ex Post Facto Principles To The United States Sentencing Guidelines After United States V. Booker, James R. Dillon
West Virginia Law Review
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