Summarize the arguments for and against plea bargaining
What will be an ideal response?
Good answers will include arguments in support: wide acceptance, prosecution and defense attorney benefits, defendants generally receive a lesser sentence and avoid the uncertainty of a trial outcome, and court benefits of prompt adjudications. Arguments against include: prosecution will overcharge to entice a plea, defense inefficiency is promoted in full litigation to better facilitate a bargain, most defendants would plead guilty even without plea bargaining, undermining of system?s integrity, decides
defendants? guilt without a trial, criminals get lesser sentences than deserved, and innocent people coerced into pleading guilty to avoid a harsher sentence.
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The extensive use of plea bargaining has increased the importance of the presentencing investigation report
a. True b. False
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