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‘Outrageous Outcomes’: Plea Bargaining and the Justice System

The Crime Report

We also have a much higher rate of plea bargain cases than the rest of the world: almost 20 percent higher than just about any other common law country. From about the 1600s, they had a gigantic Criminal Code where everything was a felony and every felony was punishable by death.