Our criminal justice system simply does not have the resources to hold a trial for every case, so the great majority of criminal cases are resolved through a negotiation process known as “plea ...

Plea bargaining is a system that is best described as one of condemnation without adjudication. It is a system that replaces trial, which is what our constitution intended, with deals. Second, those ...

In a pair of recent decisions - Lafler v. Cooper and Missouri v. Frye - the U.S. Supreme Court held that criminal defendants have the right to effective assistance of counsel during the ...

The process has been administered by a regional judge, Sergio Moro, who sits in the Parana branch of the federal court, but whose judicial zeal and penchant for plea-bargaining has won him a larger ...

Georgetown University Law professor Stephen Vladeck explains where things stand with the 9/11 Guantanamo cases now that the plea deals have been canceled. We begin tonight with the most delayed ...

In 2006, George Alvarez was charged with assaulting a prison guard while awaiting trial on public intoxication. He knew he didn’t do it — the guards actually jumped him — but the ten year mandatory ...

The rise of the plea bargain. While jury trials might have afforded citizens the chance to witness—and even contest—the criminalization of the working class, plea bargains have allowed this ...

I am fortunate to consider this month’s guest author a good friend and close collaborator. I am grateful that she took the time to write this contribution, as I am in the middle of a professional and ...

Sterling Biotech, an Indian pharmaceutical company, was recently subject to multiple allegations of loan fraud, ultimately ...

The Attorney-General and Minister of Justice, Dr Dominic Ayine, says he has turned down plea bargain proposals involving about GH¢38 ...

No matter whether they prefer a trial or swift resolution, relatives of victims of the attacks consider the on-again, off-again plea deal to be cruel. By Carol Rosenberg Reporting from Guantánamo Bay, ...