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‘Outrageous Outcomes’: Plea Bargaining and the Justice System

The Crime Report

In a conversation with The Crime Report , Canon, a civil rights lawyer who teaches at the University of Louisville in Kentucky, discusses the class-based origins of the plea bargaining process, how bad prosecutors and poor defense attorneys further distorted the process, and why reforming it will be so difficult. Why does that matter? .

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Stephen Breyer, pragmatic liberal, will retire at end of term

SCOTUSBlog

During a nearly 28-year career on the court, Breyer shunned rigid approaches to legal interpretation, often seeking functional rulings with an eye toward real-world consequences. Religion was another area in which Breyer, who is Jewish, sought to reach a solution that worked, even if it did not necessarily hew closely to legal orthodoxy.

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