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‘Outrageous Outcomes’: Plea Bargaining and the Justice System

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From about the 1600s, they had a gigantic Criminal Code where everything was a felony and every felony was punishable by death. In Alaska, after the prosecutor’s office instituted the plea bargaining ban in 1975, they went from roughly 4 percent of all the cases being screened out by that office to 44 percent basically overnight.

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March 2018 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

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Alaska Oil & Gas Association v. He had been convicted of misdemeanor trespass and felony criminal mischief and conspiracy to commit criminal mischief in October 2017. A second activist who filmed the action was convicted of felony conspiracy to commit criminal mischief and conspiracy trespass, a misdemeanor. Zinke , No.

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