Counsel's Role in Bargaining for Trials
20 Pages Posted: 9 Jan 2014 Last revised: 20 Aug 2014
Date Written: November 15, 2013
Abstract
This essay examines how counsel might use plea bargaining to mitigate the harm of plea bargaining: rather than bargaining only for pleas, counsel should bargain for trials.
Keywords: Plea bargaining, trials, juries, innocence, wrongful convictions, legitimacy, expressivism
Suggested Citation: Suggested Citation
Gilchrist, Gregory M., Counsel's Role in Bargaining for Trials (November 15, 2013). 99 Iowa Law Review 1979 (2014), University of Toledo Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2014-04, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2376501
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