Pleading Guilty: Indigent Defendant Perceptions of the Plea Process

Public defenders and other court actors most often engage in behind-the-scene plea negotiating to manage overwhelming workloads and to dispose of cases as quickly and efficiently as possible. In prior work, scholars have documented an increased reliance on plea bargaining and the deleterious impact...

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1. VerfasserIn: Hussemann, Jeanette (VerfasserIn)
Beteiligte: Siegel, Jonah
Medienart: Elektronisch Buch
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: 2019
In:Jahr: 2019
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