Plea bargaining's triumph : a history of plea bargaining in America /
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Stanford, Calif. :
Stanford University Press,
2003.
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Table of Contents:
- Liquor laws, murder cases, and the prosecutor's power to charge
- The prosecutor's motives in plea bargaining
- On-file plea bargaining and the rise of probation
- The defendant's power to plead
- Judges and the power to sentence
- Social and political theories of plea bargaining's rise
- Explaining plea bargaining's progress elsewhere
- The power of plea bargaining
- The balance of power to plea bargain.