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‘Outrageous Outcomes’: Plea Bargaining and the Justice System

The Crime Report

From about the 1600s, they had a gigantic Criminal Code where everything was a felony and every felony was punishable by death. I cite a story in the book from Tulia, Texas , where a cop goes out and arrests around 10 percent of the black people in town and frames them for drug crimes that they didn’t commit.