Plea Bargaining In Law

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Plea Bargaining
Plea bargains are used to allow the prosecution and the defendant to negotiate for a guilty/no contest plea, reduction in or no incarceration time, and finally to have some charges dropped from the case completely. This pretrial activity is used in more than 90% of state and federal cases but not everyone agrees with the outcome.
Plea bargains are a useful in helping to relieve the strain on the District Attorney’s office who has and enormous case load. By pleading out the lesser crimes for probation or drug diversion they can then focus on more major crime cases. This allows supervision and treatment and could prevent more serious crimes from those individuals. It also helps to relieve the overcrowding in our jails that may in turn prevent violent criminals early release. This can also have an adverse effect by allowing career criminals walk with lesser charges. When career offenders know the system they can use a plea bargain to escape more serious charges. Some instances criminals use their drug addiction as a means to plead guilty do a drug offence so they can get drug diversion instead of incarceration. This allows the criminal to remain on the streets and open to commit more crime until apprehended again.
A plea bargain can also be used to secure a conviction. In a …show more content…
Law enforcement put a lot of time in and effort in apprehending suspects. Not to mention they put their lives in harm’s way to keep communities safe. I close to a case with a killer being offered a deal to take the death penalty off the table if he provided information. The information was for the location of Amber Duboid body and a confession. Amber was my coworker’s daughter and this case was very close to home as I have five daughters myself. I would have like to see John Albert Gardner III die for his crimes but the plea deal stopped

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