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Pleading Guilty In Lower Courts, Malcolm M. Feeley
Pleading Guilty In Lower Courts, Malcolm M. Feeley
Malcolm Feeley
Examined is the practice of pleading guilty to petty offenses in lower courts & questioned are some of the long-standing assumptions about the dynamics of that process. It is shown that though plea bargaining of the classical type rarely occurs, the term itself & certain aspects of bargaining continue to serve important symbolic functions. Modified Author Summary.