Plea Bargaining and Crime Reduction Samuel

More often than not, according to Hall (1992), a plea bargain is negotiated by the prosecutor and the defense attorney and then approved by the judge on behalf of the courts. If a defendant "cops a plea," it is usually in return for some meaningful benefit such as a reduced sentence or the elimination of charges that would, if the individual were convicted of those charges, lengthen imprisonment. Plea bargaining came into being in the nineteenth century. Hall (19920 stated that one rationale behind ple

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ed charges û assuming that the defendant was not overcharged in the first place in order to provide prosecutors with some bargaining leverage, but plea bargains offer defendants an opportunity to avoid capital punishment and in many instances, to receive a shorter sentence than they might otherwise have obtained from a jury of their peers. In discussing the morality of plea bargaining, Michael Gorr (2000) stated that plea bargains have significantly increased the efficiency of courts and of the police. While some people criticize plea bargains as little more than threats leveled against defendants to coerce them into a guilty plea, Gorr (2000) takes the position that the vast majority of individuals who accept a plea bargain are in fact guilty of the crime with which they are charged and are directly benefiting from the process in some way or another. The goal of the plea bargain identified by Gorr (2000) is to facilitate efficiency in the criminal justice system. No one can doubt that a jury trial is, almost invariably, a lengthy and costly proceeding for all concerned. Many defendants are forced to rely upon the services of public defenders whose caseloads could prohibit mounting the kind of defense at trial that a Scott
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