Arguably these 'bargains' violate the Fifth Amendment: "nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself". Yes, in a trivial enough c

Arguably these 'bargains' violate the Fifth Amendment: "nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself". Yes, in a trivial enough case you could say there's no compulsion, but we're a long way from that state of things now. https://blogs.harvard.edu/philg/2013/01/15/plea-bargaining-and-torture-in-light-of-the-aaron-swartz-case/ https://blogs.harvard.edu/philg/2013/01/15/plea-bargaining-a...