Plea Bargaining: A Selected BibliographyNational Institute of Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice, Law Enforcement Assistance Administration, U.S. Department of Justice, 1976 - Government publications - 30 pages |
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Page 20 - ... by the National Advisory Commission on Criminal Justice Standards and Goals. The following examples of possible performance standards relating to SPA planning and fiscal administration underscore this basic distinction.
Page 3 - ... ARCURI Dr. Arcuri is currently Assistant Professor of Political Science at Stockton State College, Pomona, New Jersey. He possesses AB and MA degrees from Michigan State University (1961 and 1963, respectively), and a Ph.D. from Brown University (1971). The main purpose of this study is to test whether the high frequency of plea bargaining, which often accounts for defendants receiving lenient sentences, has a demoralizing effect on police. Police have great latitude in the way they combat or...
Page 1 - This article explores the extent to which the presence of counsel does provide a significant safeguard of fairness in guilty plea negotiation and finds that current conceptions of the defense attorney's role are often more romanticized than real. The thesis of this article is that the plea bargaining system is an inherently irrational method of administering justice and necessarily destructive of sound attorney-client relationships. The author contends that this system subjects defense attorneys...
Page 3 - Chapter Twenty-Six Standards Relating to Pleas of Guilty American Bar Association Project on Minimum Standards for Criminal Justice Reprint permission granted by the American Bar Association. I. [§26.1] INTRODUCTION The following recommendations deal principally with the plea of guilty and to some extent with the related, although seldom used, plea of nolo contendere. They include not only standards for procedures to be followed in taking the plea of guilty but also standards to govern the practice...
Page 9 - ... be encouraged to exercise this right. Again, each single defendant's own self-interest will determine whether or not he should exercise it. In light of these considerations, including the benefits to both the system and to defendants that can be derived from a controlled system of plea negotiations, it would not be desirable to lay down a broad constitutional dictum forbidding the practice. It would be a mistake to push valid legal, even constitutional, insights to the ultimate of their logic....
Page 11 - There were three broad operating goals: to improve the quality of cases coming to trial by providing legal advice and casework assistance to police investigators, to provide swift and appropriate prosecution of target crimes, and to reduce the frequency of negotiated pleas.