Plea bargaining's triumph : a history of plea bargaining in America /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Fisher, George, 1959-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: 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.