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‘Outrageous Outcomes’: Plea Bargaining and the Justice System

The Crime Report

However, according to the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers , less than 3 percent of criminal cases have gone to trial in the last five decades. TCR: The first part of your book focuses on the roots of the current legal system in English Common. Plea bargaining coincided with overt classism in the legal system.

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A second look at a death-row prisoner’s ineffective-assistance-of-counsel claim

SCOTUSBlog

After lingering on the court’s docket for more than a year, the Supreme Court issued a summary reversal , ruling in an unsigned opinion that death-row prisoner Terence Andrus had demonstrated that his lawyer provided constitutionally ineffective performance at sentencing by failing to investigate or introduce mitigating evidence.