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> How is offering a lesser punishment "manipulation"? It's part of a larger manipulative pattern. Since you can increase the penalties for jury convictions to
by KingMob 3y ago
> How is offering a lesser punishment "manipulation"?
It's part of a larger manipulative pattern.
Since you can increase the penalties for jury convictions to absurd levels, like the USA has done, even a "lesser" plea bargain punishment can still be more punitive than most nations' jury conviction punishments.
Plus, as the length of a jury conviction punishment increases, the threshold at which one's willing to risk a jury trial has to go up, thus pressuring people into taking plea bargains they might not under another country's judicial system.
- refurb 3y ago> Since you can increase the penalties for jury convictions to absurd levels What? Juries follow the law and the prescribed punishments. Maybe you're thinking of civil penalties?
- watwut 3y agoJuries do not decide punishments. They are often times NOT allowed to even know what punishments are (the thinking is that they would be more likely to acquit when those punishments would feel too hard for them).
- refurb 3y agoThey do in some cases. But your response misses the point entirely. How can a prosecution threaten a longer sentence when they don’t determine it?
- watwut 3y ago> How can a prosecution threaten a longer sentence when they don’t determine it? They do determine it in plea guilty process, actually. That being said, what they primary do is to manipulate charges - they add or remove charges to get the sentence they want. That process has nothing to do with what you actually done or not done. Charges are made big if you want trial. Charges are small if you accept plea guilty. For practical purposes, prosecutors are key decision makers.