Plea juries might also give prosecutors an incentive to be more restrained in their charging decisions, according to Appleman, by harnessing their desire to get through cases quickly.

Ninety-seven percent of federal cases are settled the way Church’s was, by plea bargain. ... ‘I’ll shoot you if you don’t plead guilty,’ then the plea is invalid,” Alschuler explained.

In his passionate and bleak essay in The New York Review of Books, US Judge Jed Rakoff explained his theories about why 97% of federal criminal defendants agreed to plea bargains if their cases ...

Uganda’s chief justice Alfonse Owiny-Dollo has advised inmates against enrolling for plea bargain in order to plead guilty to ...

When will the failings of counsel allow a defendant to successfully challenge his plea bargain through habeas corpus proceedings? After last week’s decision in Premo v.Moore, the answer appears to be: ...

Plea bargaining facilitates the administration of justice as it expedites cases and helps reduce this heavy backlog, ... explained that if the State (through the attorney general) – and the ...