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The System November 4, 2020
The Truth About Trials
“We put together the most cumbersome and expensive trial system that the world has ever seen, and then we decided we can’t do it for all but a tiny, tiny portion of people.”
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Some district attorneys, including San Diego District Attorney Summer Stephan, have publicly pushed back on sentencing reductions.
News July 2, 2019
The New Price of a Plea Bargain in California
Lawmakers cut criminal sentences; some DAs push back using plea deals.
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Assemblyman Joseph Lentol, D-Brooklyn, has been sponsoring discovery bills for years.
News April 1, 2019
“Blindfold” Off: New York Overhauls Pretrial Evidence Rules
Prosecutors will be required to turn over information to the defense much earlier in a criminal case, among other changes.
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Life Inside June 21, 2018
I Survived a Violent Crime, Then the Justice System Let Me Down
"I was made to feel like a second-class victim."
By Patricia Wenskunas, as told to
News May 21, 2018
Corey Williams About to Walk Free in Louisiana
A sudden plea deal ends a decades-long fight in a capital murder case.
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A courtroom in the U.S. District of Massachusetts’ John Joseph Moakley Courthouse in Boston, where Judge William Young sits.
Case in Point December 4, 2017
“Complete Balderdash”
A judge balks at a corporate plea deal he can’t see
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Bronx Criminal Court on 161st Street in New York City.
Commentary October 23, 2017
When Race Tips the Scales in Plea Bargaining
New research finds that prosecutors give white defendants better deals than black defendants.
Jenn Rolnick Borchetta and Alice Fontier
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