Is Plea Bargaining unjust?

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Absolutly, plea bargining plays on the prisoner's dilemma. If both suspected felons say nothing, they both walk free, if one says something, one gets a heavy sentence while the other barely gets anything, if they both say the other one did it, they both go to prison. Notice that no where in that reasoning is truth metioned. The defendants are put under such pressure, that the truth is not considered, simply survival. So, a court that seeks justice should automatically dismiss plea bargining in search of the truth. In this same way, plea bargining is not completly voluntay and therefore, the defendant is not actually waving his 6th Amendment right.

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plea bargaining is just and unjust it all depends on the situation. For examle if there is this mass murderer and rapist and he tried to plea bargain saying that he was forced to kill and rape than it is unjust but if someone siad that they was forced to take all of the money out of the bank account because they had a gun to them then it is just

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What is plea bargaining? Yes there are some cases where plea bargaining is useful, but most of the times it's a business decision not a matter of law. Plea bargaining proves the entire justice system is a business organization hung up on the fact of the prison industry being the growing industry in the country. As of 2002, the U.S had a record of over 2 million people behind bars. That's number one in the world, in front of China's+ Russia's 1.5 million people behind bars. That's Seven tenths of a percent of America's popualtion behind bars. (Source U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics)

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What is plea bargaining? Yes there are some cases where plea bargaining is useful, but most of the times it's a business decision not a matter of law. Plea bargaining proves the entire justice system is a business organization hung up on the fact of the prison industry being the fastest growing industry in the country. As of 2002, the U.S had a record of over 2 million people behind bars. That's number one in the world, in front of China's+ Russia's 1.5 million people behind bars. That's Seven tenths of a percent of America's popualtion behind bars. (Source U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics)

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What is plea bargaining? Yes there are some cases where plea bargaining is useful, but most of the times it's a business decision not a matter of law. Plea bargaining proves the entire justice system is a business organization hung up on the fact of the prison industry being the fastest growing industry in the country. As of 2002, the U.S had a record of over 2 million people behind bars. That's number one in the world, in front of China's+ Russia's 1.5 million people behind bars. That's Seven tenths of a percent of America's popualtion behind bars. (Source U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics)

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