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3-group agreement adversarial adversary system Allegheny County and/or special program appropriate sentence assume this sentence Assuming that prosecution attitudinal Bronx County Bronx Detroit caseloads of prosecution Charge on Information/Indictment Circle one number county jail court delay court have adequate court system crime criminal courts Criminal Justice d.a.'s Judges Dade County defense attorneys differences Dismissal or nolle district attorney expeditious manner fair and expeditious Figure four cities four courts given adequate staff guilty plea hypothetical ignore numbers indicate sentence Justice Delayed legal culture less serious Mandatory Sentencing median Miami and Detroit Miami and Pittsburgh misdemeanor mode of disposition Negotiated plea nolle prosequi numbers in parenthesis pace of litigation parole practices percent Plea Bargaining plea negotiations plea without charge police practitioner attitudes predict would actually prior record Probable acquittal prosecutors public defender Recorder's Court reduction or sentence respondents sample Sellin-Wolfgang sentence assurance substantial Table trial rates trial to begin Witness