Carissa Hessick on Jan. 6 Plea Bargains
The Lawfare Podcast
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The Problem With Plea Bargaining in the District Attorney's Office
"If these people are innocent, they obviously shouldn't have had to plead guilty to anything," she says. "i don't think that any one thinks that that people who are accused of serious crimes like that should spend little or no time in jail" She argues the way plea bargaining works makes it impossible for Americans to know what's going on and act as a democratic check on it.
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