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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.

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

SCOTUSBlog

In that case, Breyer (as well as Justice Sandra Day O’Connor and liberals John Paul Stevens and Ruth Bader Ginsburg) joined an opinion by Justice David Souter that held that the display of a Ten Commandments plaque on the walls of two Kentucky courthouses was unconstitutional.

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