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Quasi-Inquisitorialism: Accounting For Deference In Pretrial Criminal Procedure, Jennifer E. Laurin
Quasi-Inquisitorialism: Accounting For Deference In Pretrial Criminal Procedure, Jennifer E. Laurin
Jennifer E. Laurin
The actions of police and prosecutors that take place long before a criminal trial are frequently critical to, even dispositive of the accuracy and reliability of case disposition. At the same time the regulatory touch of constitutional criminal procedure in the pretrial realm is notoriously, even insistently, light. Proposals to address actual or risked deficiencies in this arena have proliferated in recent years, exemplified by pushes for social-science-rooted investigative best practices, for broader defense access to evidence prior to trial, for more oversight in plea bargaining, and so on. But in the face of these critiques, broad pretrial discretion largely …