Carissa Hessick on Jan. 6 Plea Bargains
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The Law Fair Podcast, October Nineteenth, Two Thousand 21
Around a hundred people have already pleaded guilty to crimes in connection with january sixth attempted insurrection on the capital. Are they overly lenient? Are they what we might expect? I sat down for a live recording of the law fair podcast with carissa burne hessock, the ransell distinguished professor of law at the university of north carolina school of law. We talked through her reaction to the deals, and also talked about plea bargaining in general,. The subject of her new book, punishment without trial, why plea bargaining is a bad deal. It was a wide, rang ing conversation both about the mechanics of plea bargaining and about all things january sixth criminal prosecutions.
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