Plea Bargain—Innovation or Imperfect?

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Is “negotiated” justice—i.e., plea bargaining—a positive evolution in the criminal justice

system

When I think about negotiated just and plea bargaining do I feel that it is a positive

evolution in the criminal justice system? I would say yes and no looking at it from the

prosecution side of things I would say that the positives from a plea bargaining is that they would

no longer have to be burden with proving the guilt of a suspect trying to prove their case against

them. The other thing is that could happen because of excepting a plea bargaining and allowing

someone to have a lesser charge which could lead to them serving lesser time because of that the

prosecution or investigators could get information from them that could lead to bigger arrest or

even lead to information or help with unsolved crimes being solved by information provided by a

person that is willing to negotiate.

The person that is facing criminal charges on the other hand negotiation and plea

bargaining could be a positive thing for them. The suspect of a crime has the opportunity to

negotiate to accept a lesser charge for exchange of information or they may be given the chance

to except the negotiation as way of avoiding going to court and being possibly found guilty of a

bigger crime and then facing a lengthy sentence it can also mean for the suspect the difference of

being charged with a misdemeanor instead being charged with a felony which will allow the

suspect to avoid the negative effects of having a felony charge on their records. The one

negative that I think this does is that there are families that sometimes do not get the justice that

they deserve by agreeing with a plea agreement along with the prosecution.

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