Although the majority of criminal cases in the United States are settled with plea bargains, very little empirical evidence exists to explain how defendants make life-altering plea bargain decisions. This Article first discusses the psychologicalfactors involved in plea bargaining decisions. Next, this Article empirically examines the factors involved in plea decisions of real-life defendants within the legal and psychological contexts. Finally, this Article highlights the psychological issues that need to be further examined in pleabargaining literature
A great deal of criminal law scholarship and practice turns on whether a defendant gets a good deal ...
Most criminal cases are disposed of through the process of plea bargaining. However, almost no resea...
The dominant theoretical model of plea bargaining predicts that, under conditions of full informatio...
In this Article, Professors Dervan and Edkins discuss a recent psychological study they completed re...
This paper analyzes plea bargaining and plea negotiation in the American judicial system. Plea barga...
The overwhelming majority of convictions in the United States are obtained through guilty pleas. Man...
Despite its popular use in the U.S. legal system, research on plea bargaining and the factors that a...
In Missouri v. Frye and Lafler v. Cooper, the Supreme Court affirmed that plea bargaining, although ...
This Article proposes turning plea bargaining into a dialogical process, which would result in lesse...
For the criminal defendant, his attorney acts as his loyal and zealous advocate before the court (Am...
American criminal procedure developed on the assumption that grand juries and petit jury trials were...
A great deal of criminal law scholarship and practice turns on whether a defendant gets a good deal ...
According to an economic model of plea bargaining, defendants’ plea decisions are based on their est...
Well over 90 percent of all criminal cases in the United States are resolved by plea bargaining and ...
In this Article, the author argues that differential sentencing of criminal defendants who plead gui...
A great deal of criminal law scholarship and practice turns on whether a defendant gets a good deal ...
Most criminal cases are disposed of through the process of plea bargaining. However, almost no resea...
The dominant theoretical model of plea bargaining predicts that, under conditions of full informatio...
In this Article, Professors Dervan and Edkins discuss a recent psychological study they completed re...
This paper analyzes plea bargaining and plea negotiation in the American judicial system. Plea barga...
The overwhelming majority of convictions in the United States are obtained through guilty pleas. Man...
Despite its popular use in the U.S. legal system, research on plea bargaining and the factors that a...
In Missouri v. Frye and Lafler v. Cooper, the Supreme Court affirmed that plea bargaining, although ...
This Article proposes turning plea bargaining into a dialogical process, which would result in lesse...
For the criminal defendant, his attorney acts as his loyal and zealous advocate before the court (Am...
American criminal procedure developed on the assumption that grand juries and petit jury trials were...
A great deal of criminal law scholarship and practice turns on whether a defendant gets a good deal ...
According to an economic model of plea bargaining, defendants’ plea decisions are based on their est...
Well over 90 percent of all criminal cases in the United States are resolved by plea bargaining and ...
In this Article, the author argues that differential sentencing of criminal defendants who plead gui...
A great deal of criminal law scholarship and practice turns on whether a defendant gets a good deal ...
Most criminal cases are disposed of through the process of plea bargaining. However, almost no resea...
The dominant theoretical model of plea bargaining predicts that, under conditions of full informatio...