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Carissa Hessick on Jan. 6 Plea Bargains

The Lawfare Podcast

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The Advantages of Plea Bargaining for a Prosecutors

"We enact these laws because we don't want prosecutors to have to bring people to trial," he says. Plea bargaining is the default way to deal with our cases, and "we've created a system of case processing instead of a system that's designed to get at the truth", writes John Sutter in his new book.

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