Growing Use of Sentencing Differentials in Resentencings Much attention has been focused in recent years on sentencing differentials in the plea bargaining context. The term sentencing differential...

Growing Use of Sentencing Differentials in Resentencings. #PleaBargainingBlog #FixThePlea

Consistent with ABA CJS Plea Bargain Task Force Principle 4, new AG Bondi memo re charging and plea bargaining makes clear that prosecutors “may not use criminal charges to exert leverage to induce a guilty plea.” #FixthePlea #PleaBargaining

The Cost of Plea Bargains: Reflections and Recommendations from the ABA Plea Bargain Task Force The Cost of Plea Bargains tells the story of plea bargaining's rise, the early roots of the movement to reform pleas, and the work and recommendations of the American Bar Association's Plea bargainin…

Interested in plea bargaining? Take a look at this book from the ABA which tells the story of plea bargaining's rise, the early roots of the movement to reform pleas, and the work and recommendations of the ABA's Plea Bargain Task Force. #FixthePlea
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In the 1970 Brady decision approving the use of plea bargaining for the first time, the U.S. Supreme Court relied upon an assumption that innocent people do not falsely plead guilty. Yet case studies and research since that time demonstrate this assumption is false. #FixthePlea #CriminalJustice