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Pleading Out: How Plea Bargaining Creates a Permanent Criminal Class

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A Conscientious Prosecutor Can Make Big Changes

Elected prosecutors can make big changes in the way that they screen cases and what their priorities are for prosecution. The other way is to a, in a, sort of a stoke public consciousness into a not being so complaicant about plea bargaining. If you start hammering away at that as as a message, you don't plead. Bargaining bad, right? You know, just like this basic es is not good for america. Let's not plead every single case. And i've got to quote from justice burg or chief justice, former chief justice burger,. He was saying, all right, here we are at 90 % plea bargning rate. We're now at 97

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