Plea Bargains
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Crime
Plea Bargaining: A Necessary Evil?
What can be done to improve this important and problematic practice? -
Crime, Trials
Let's 'Sweatt' The Technique: The Atlantic Looks At Plea Bargaining
There are problems with the overwhelming prevalence of plea bargaining. - Sponsored
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Biglaw, Dewey & LeBoeuf, White-Collar Crime
Dewey Know Who's Not Going To Trial? Defendant No. 4, Zachary Warren
Congratulations to both the promising young lawyer and the prosecution and putting this unfortunate episode to rest.
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Crime
Criminally Yours: The Black Hole Of Discovery
The decision to plead guilty is often made in the dark, based on fear and a shortage of information. Why does this happen? -
Alan Dershowitz, Crime, Sex, Sex Scandals
Jeffrey Epstein’s Lawyers Want To Seal Documents To Stop The Frolic With The Media
Should information relating to plea negotiations be kept confidential? -
Crime, Sentencing Law, White-Collar Crime
Overpunishment, Rationality, And Rakoff
A look at one federal judge's proposal to reform the criminal justice system and the responses it has generated. -
Crime, Jed Rakoff, White-Collar Crime
Judge's Proposal For Criminal Justice System Is Far Too Sensible For Anyone To Actually Implement
An innovative solution to the unilateral prosecutorial control of plea bargains. -
11th Circuit, Airplanes / Aviation, Food, Guns / Firearms, Law Professors, Law Schools, Masturbation, Non-Sequiturs, Trials
Non-Sequiturs: 12.10.12
* I’m not sure what it takes to be a top “Global Thinker,” but I’m sure these law professors are worthy. [Volokh Conspiracy] * Good to see that I’m not the only one who gets crazy pitch letters from lawyers. [Popehat] * If somehow this results in a Simpsons episode where the 11th Circuit rules on whether or not the family can have another Snowball, I’ll be happy. [Find Law] * No joke, the “things you can’t do on a plane” series is probably my favorite thing in the blawgosphere right now. [Legal Blog Watch] * Keith Magness, the lawyer accused of masturbating on the office furniture of girls in his firm, entered Alford pleas. But the pleas kind of stuck together. [Times-Picayune] * But really, how is anybody going to get trial experience if everybody is entering pleas all the time? [Underdog] * Could a benevolent monopolist fix legal education? Perhaps. But I’d vote for a malevolent blogger instead. [lawprofblog] * This law student is worried about the tax implications of getting free donuts. He’d better be worried about letting me know that he can get donuts whenever he wants. (Yes, I make the jokes so you can’t hurt me, then go home to bacon-wrapped, fried steak wedges, which don’t judge). [Tax Prof Blog] * I was on Geraldo at Large for about 30 seconds this weekend telling a gun range owner that guns should be regulated while standing in the middle of his gun store. I wore bright orange because, well, I didn’t want to get shot. [Geraldo at Large] - Sponsored
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Crime, Drinking, Drugs, Lawyer of the Day, Marijuana, Nauseating Things, Rape
'Sh*t Law' Attorney Sentenced to Perform Community Service at Sewage Treatment Plant
A former Lawyer of the Day has been sentenced to some rather stinky community service.
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