Justice Scalia, joined by Chief Justice Roberts (on all but the last part of the dissenting opinion) and Justice Thomas, criticized the majority for opening “a whole new field of constitutionalized ...

A new report from the American Bar Association (ABA) presents more evidence that the ubiquitous use of plea bargains distorts the justice system and puts defendants at a disadvantage. Roughly 98.3 ...

John Langbein is a professor of law and legal history at Yale Law School. In this interview, he describes how the plea bargain system pressures people to buckle and accept a plea -- even if they ...

The Vasquez case is an example of what plea bargaining and, therefore, the criminal justice process looks like for real people. Although it may be an extreme example, it is not an outlier.

Plea juries might also give prosecutors an incentive to be more restrained in their charging decisions, according to Appleman, by harnessing their desire to get through cases quickly.

The prosecution made Townsend a plea offer. Using a process known as charge-bargaining, they offered to drop some charges – reducing his possible sentence to 10 to 25 years – in exchange for a ...

MASON CITY —Citizens demanding justice often bristle at the idea of plea bargains. But to prosecutors and defense attorneys alike, such agreements are a vital part of the justice system. “They ...

Here’s an example of a factually baseless plea: a criminal defendant is charged with rape, the most egregious sex crime under Ohio law. Through the course of the plea-bargaining process, the ...

Still, if plea bargaining is key to legal efficiency, it can also appear unseemly. “There is no glory in plea bargaining,” writes George Fisher, a professor of law at Stanford University.

Plea bargaining was the most common way a case ended in both counties. In Milwaukee County, 60% of cases ended in a plea deal in 2019, a decrease from 66% in 2016.