Plea Bargaining Paper, law homework help

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Write a 700- to 1,050-word paper in which you evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of plea bargaining. Address the following in your paper:

  • Define plea bargaining.
  • Distinguish between charge bargaining and sentence bargaining.
  • Compare and contrast the advantages and disadvantages of plea bargaining.
  • Describe how plea bargaining reflects or thwarts the crime control and due process models of criminal justice.

Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.

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Running head: PLEA BARGAINING

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Plea Bargaining
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PLEA BARGAINING

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Plea Bargaining is defined as an agreement in a criminal case in which both the prosecutor
and defendant pleads guilty. Moreover, plea bargaining aims at ensuring that the prosecutor will
be lenient to the defendant which determines final court ruling. In other words, it is termed as an
alternative way used by defendant to avoid a lengthy trial in the court. In most cases, lengthy trials
may yield to conviction of a serious crime. Plea bargaining scenario puts attorney in a dilemma.
In such a scenario, attorneys will consider to make a good deal with either the client as well as
keep a good relationship with prosecutor (Cohen, 2000 pg. 28).

Charge bargaining involves set of actions in court whereby the defendant pleads to be
guilty based on a crime which is said to be less serious than the original charge. In most cases,
charge...


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