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>> Honest question, do you have a proposed solution that doesn't remove plea bargains entirely? > There are a number of solutions...Plea bargains are illegal i
by ergothus 10y ago
>> Honest question, do you have a proposed solution that doesn't remove plea bargains entirely?
> There are a number of solutions...Plea bargains are illegal in countries like Denmark and severely restricted elsewhere like the UK and Estonia.
That sounds an awful lot like saying "No, you remove them entirely, or almost entirely" Since I was asking someone that said they wanted to keep plea bargains how they pictured that, I'm not sure what point you were trying to make. Can you elaborate?
- akiselev 10y agoDid you read the page? In Estonia plea bargains are limited to cases that carry a maximum of four years of imprisonment and a max of 25% can be shaved off of the sentence. In France, plea bargains are limited to crimes that carry a maximum of one year. Poland has a maximum of ten years. Note that this does not preclude anyone from pleading guilty without a plea bargain. The whole point is to reduce court load and create leverage when trying to convince someone to become state's witness (which is controversial as well). How does placing concrete limits on plea bargains doing away with them "entirely or almost entirely?" Estonia's and France's systems, for example, allow largely unrestricted plea bargains in the vast majority of cases, thus freeing the court for more important cases that carry large penalties while preventing prosecutors from bullying innocent people for the sake of their career.